Question

I am really confused about how I can do this. I need to get the value of two <td> when one is selected. For example, below let’s say I select the td with id=monthly of $550 dollars. I need to get the age and excess that corresponds with that price. I hope this makes sense. SO in the example of selecting $550 I need jQuery to get the values age(18-24) and excess($1000). I then will take these two values and insert into mysql as noted below. Is there anyway I can do this with either jQuery or PHP? I am open to ideas.

<table>
    <tr>
    <td width="67"></td>
    <td width="102" id="excess">$1000</td>
    <td width="102" id="excess">$2000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width="67" id="age">18-24</td>
    <td width="102" id="monthly">$550</td>
    <td width="102" id="monthly">$650</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width="67" id="age">25-29</td>
    <td width="102" id="monthly">$750</td>
    <td width="102" id="monthly">$850</td>
    </tr>
    </table>

MYSQL(using the example above):

$query = mysql_query("UPDATE table SET Monthly = '$550' WHERE Age = '18-24' AND Excess = '$1000'")or die(mysql_error());

Answer 1

Your HTML is invalid. You cannot have more than one element with the same id, id values (as the name suggests) must be unique. If you’re trying to classify elements, use a class. The rest of this answer assumes those id values have been changed to class names.

If I understand you, you want to handle clicks on cells with the monthly class and get the text of the first cell in the row along with the first cell in the column. This is easily done with jQuery (live example | source):

$("td.monthly").click(function() {
    var $this = $(this),
        firstCellInRow = $this.closest('tr').find('td').first(),
        firstCellInColumn = $this.closest('table').find('tr').first().find('td').eq($this.index());
    console.log("First cell in row: " + firstCellInRow.text());
    console.log("First cell in column: " + firstCellInColumn.text());
});

We find the first cell in the row by finding the row via closest, then finding its first cell via find and first.

We find the first cell in the column by finding the table via closest, then getting the first row via find and first, then getting the index of the clicked cell and finding the cell in the first row with the same index via eq.