specific select in jquery

Not certain if this will be the fastest but...

$('#tableofdata tr td + td + td') 

what about that solution :

$('#mytable tr').each(function() { var customerId = $(this).find("td").eq(2).html(); } 

The problem with this solution:

$('#mytable tr').each(function() { var customerId = $(this).find("td").eq(2).html(); }); 

Is that if your table looks like this:

<table id='mytable'> <tr> <td>col1</td> <td>col2</td> <td>15</td> </tr> <tr> <td>col1</td> <td>col2</td> <td>16</td> </tr> </table> 

It would only get the ID of the first row because of the way it is constructed. So if you wanted to get all the IDs, you would do this:

var customers = new Array(); $('#mytable tr td:nth-child(2)').each(function() { customers.push($(this).html()); }); 

If you wanted the specific customer id of the Nth row, you would do this:

var customerId = $('#mytable tr').eq(N).find('td').eq(2).html(); 

Where N would be the 0-based index of the row you want.