Question

I’m new to JQuery. I need a JQuery expression returning the first table row as an array of strings?

<table id='table1'>
  <tr>
    <td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td>
  </tr>
<table>

In this case it should give ['A','B','C'].

Answer 1

You can use the .map() jQuery function to create a new array from a jQuery object, like so:

var newArray = $('#table1 tr:first td').map(function() {
    return $(this).html();
});

Working DEMO