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vulkoingim
vulkoingim

Reputation: 117

jQuery get table header name of clicked cell with id

I have a table, and in that table I have values with id="edit". Now, what I want is to get the header name of the corresponding column when I click on any of the cells. What I have so far, based on a previous question asked is:

$('body').on('click', 'td#edit', function() {  
    var th = $('this').closest('th').eq($('th').val());
    alert(th);        // returns [object Object]
    .........................
}

Can you help me out with this?

HTML:

<table id="myTable" class="myTable">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <th>Select</th>
        <th>JobNo</th>
        <th>Customer</th>
        <th>JobDate</th>
        <th>Warranty</th>
        <th>RepairStatus</th>
        <th>POP</th>
        <th>DOA</th>
        <th>Model</th>
        <th>SN</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="check">
            <input type="checkbox" value="12345">
        </td>
        <td class="edit">
            <b>12345</b>
        </td>
        <td class="edit">gdsgasdfasfasdfa</td>
        <td class="edit">2011-01-21</td>
        <td class="edit">TRUE</td>
        <td class="edit">RP</td>
        <td class="edit">FALSE</td>
        <td class="edit">0</td>
        <td class="edit">5152342</td>
        <td class="edit">66665464</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 29694

Answers (2)

Vishal
Vishal

Reputation: 2060

For this markup

<table>
    <tr class="header">
        <th>Header One</th>
        <th>Header Two</th>
        <th>Header Three</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="edit">One</td>
        <td class="edit">Two</td>
        <td class="edit">Three</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="edit">One</td>
        <td class="edit">Two</td>
        <td class="edit">Three</td>
    </tr>
</table>

You can use this jQuery code:

$(".mytable").on('click', 'td.edit', function(e) {
    var index = $(this).index();
    var table = $(this).closest('table');
    console.log(table.find('.header th').eq(index).text());  // returns the header text  
});

Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/7qXm8/

Upvotes: 2

Adil
Adil

Reputation: 148140

The function closest() loop in ancestors up the DOM tree and th is not parent of td so closest is not right option. First of all use class if you are having same id for more than one elements. Secondly use index() to find the corresponding th of td. For being specific assign id to parent table so that the script does not operate on other tables / td on page.

Live Demo

Html

<table id="tbl1" border="1">
    <tr>
        <th>heading 1</th>
        <th>heading 2</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="edit">row 1, cell 1</td>
        <td class="edit">row 1, cell 2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="edit">row 2, cell 1</td>
        <td class="edit">row 2, cell 2</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Javascript

$('#tbl1').on('click', '.edit', function () {
    var th = $('#tbl1 th').eq($(this).index());
    alert(th.text()); // returns text of respective header
});

Upvotes: 13

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