Question

I often find myself doing things like this when manipulating tables:-

$($('table tr').children()[2]).html();

For when I want the cell in the 3rd column as a jQuery wrapped set. Selecting the node using [n] and then passing to $() to get a jQuery wrapped set.

Is there a neater more readable way to do this?

Answer 1

Use the .eq() method

$('table tr').children().eq(2).html();

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you could alternatively use the :eq selector

$('table tr > :eq(2)').html();