Didn't see your latest post before I posted! I'll give it a spin. Thx!
On Jun 24, 10:48 am, Matthew <mvbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> actually now that I thought about it my first post may not work...
> because you'd have to first get all the tr's then take each tr and
> find the first two td's. You can try my first response, if not try
> this:
>
> $("table tr").each(function(){
> var counter = 0;
> $(this).children().each(function(){
> $(this).attr("attribute","value");
> counter++;
> if(counter > 1) { break; }
> });
>
> });
>
> this will iterate through the tr's one at a time while only accessing
> the first two td's for each tr.
>
> On Jun 24, 10:43 am, Matthew <mvbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > when you use this code $("tr td") it would create an array of all
> > those td's in the tr. So then we just need to cycle through the first
> > two and set the attribute then break the cycle.
>
> > var counter = 0;
> > $("tr td").each(function(){
> > $(this).attr("attribute","value");
> > counter++;
> > if(counter > 1) { break; } // after the first two td's stop
> > the iteration through all the td's.
>
> > });
>
> > You can be more specific with what tr you use or you could use a table
> > with a certain class or id:
>
> > $("table.class tr td").each(........
>
> > hope this helps.
>
> > On Jun 24, 10:26 am, MikeyJ <m.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi All,
>
> > > I'd like to set the align attribute of only the first TD in a TR for
> > > an entire table but am not sure how to address them all in one go.
> > > Probably an Nth child thing or similar but not sure!
>
> > > Thx,
> > > Mike
>
>
