Question

I am having a table that contains columns with rowspan and rows that do not contain rowspan. I want to read the date column from the table below.

I want to read Monday 1 jan 2010, Tuesday 2 jan 2010. Wednesday 3 jan 2010…etc…
How can I do that?

Note that there are some columns with rowspan and others not.

Answer 1

Try this –

var maxcols = 0;

$('table tr').each(function() {
    $(this).children().length > maxcols ? maxcols = $(this).children().length : maxcols = maxcols;
});

$('table tr td:first-child').each(function() {
    if ($(this).text() != '' && $(this).parent().children().length === maxcols)
        alert($(this).text());
});   

http://jsfiddle.net/ipr101/FyGR6/1/