Javascript: Get cell's column id

Question

For example:

I want to accomplish what the following psuedo code does

<scipt>
var intCol = document.getElementById('x').column
</scipt>

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Why can't you use cellIndex?

On this page:

$('.postcell')[0].cellIndex
> 1
$('.votecell')[0].cellIndex
> 0

I know people hate W3Schools, but they do provide a good basic dataset: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_tabledata_cellindex.asp