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Asked: May 16, 20262026-05-16T15:47:57+00:00 2026-05-16T15:47:57+00:00

How to select the tds of the 1st column with jQuery?

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Given HTML like this:

<table>
  <tr><td/><td/></tr>
  <tr><td/><td/></tr>
</table>

for example you can set the text of each first td in each row with this jQuery:

$("table tr td:first-child").text("hello");

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