Question

i am trying to get the value in the next column ie Link1 labelwhen clicking on link1? how to do this with jquery? i tried:

$("#Link1").clicked( function()
{
    alert($("td(2) label.attr('text')"));
});

      <table>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <a id="link1">Link1</a>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <label>
                        Link1 label</label>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <a id="link2">Link2</a>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <label>
                        Link2 label</label>
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>

Answer 1

Use this:

$("a").click(function(){
   var $label = $(this).closest("tr").find("label");
   alert( $label.text() );
})

Hope this helps.