Question

I am using the DataTables plugin for jQuery and need to get one of the table rows. DataTables has a fnGetNodes function that returns an Array with all of the DOMElements of the table. I would like to use a jQuery selector to find that row (I know the id of the row), but I need to convert the Array to a jQuery Object, is this possible?

Answer 1

Logically you could do it with

var $row = $(dom_array).filter( 
               function(index){ 
                   return $(this).attr('id') == 'some_id'; 
               } 
           );

this will return a jQuery object of the row with the specified id.