Question

I’m trying to write a reusable function to retrieve all data in a table that is passed to it and store it in an array.

I’m not sure how to pass the reference to the table.

I could do something like…

passTableRef($('#tableId th'),$('#tableId td'));

but I would like to pass just the table reference in case I would like to elaborate on the function.

Is there a way to pass $('#tableId') and append the reference to $('#tableId th') and $('#tableId td') within the function?

EDIT: for clarification

I am wondering if you can take a reference – $(#tableId)

pass it to a function – reusableFunction($('#tableId'))

then do something like this..

function reusableFunction(table)
{
  //change the selector $("#tableId") to $("#tableId th")
}

Answer 1

Pass in just the table and just continue down to whatever you want with find.

someFunc( $('#tableId') );

then…

function someFunc( table ) {
  var tds = table.find('td');
}