Or simply $('.main:eq(1) > td:eq(1)').text();
In case you need it, you can select elements by their contents too, althought it's a bit slower: $('.main td:contains(Presse)') See the docs page for all available selectors: docs.jquery.com/Selectors docs.jquery.com/Traversing On Jan 3, 11:59 am, "Mauricio \(Maujor\) Samy Silva" <css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose we want target the second cell of the second row whose class is > "main" : > > selectedCell = $('.main').eq(1).find('td').eq(1).text() > alert(selectedCell); > > >Hello, > >I would to know how I can get a specific row in a table and get the > >text of a specific td.