Question

I have:

var rows = $table.find('tbody > tr').get();

This selects all rows. However, not all tables have thead and tbody explicitly defined, so I need to filter out any rows that have .children(‘th’)

Answer 1

EDIT: I’m assuming you wanted to filter out the rows that have <th> elements. If you wanted to end up with only those rows, then just get rid of the :not() part.

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This will give you <tr> elements in the table that do not have a descendant <th>.

var rows = $table.find('tr:not(:has(th))').get();

• http://api.jquery.com/not-selector/
• http://api.jquery.com/has-selector/

Note that this will also give consideration to nested tables. If there will be nested tables with <th> tags, try this:

var rows = $table.find('tr:not(:has( > th))').get();

…which should limit the consideration of the <th> tags to immediate children.