Getting value from table cell in JavaScript…not jQuery

Question

I can\'t believe how long this has taken me but I can\'t seem to figure out how to extract a cell value from an HTML table as I iterate through the table with JavaScript. I

Answer 1

I know this is like years old post but since there is no selected answer I hope this answer may give you what you are expecting...

if(document.getElementsByTagName){  
    var table = document.getElementById('table className');
    for (var i = 0, row; row = table.rows[i]; i++) {
    //rows would be accessed using the "row" variable assigned in the for loop
     for (var j = 0, col; col = row.cells[j]; j++) {
     //columns would be accessed using the "col" variable assigned in the for loop
        alert('col html>>'+col.innerHTML);    //Will give you the html content of the td
        alert('col>>'+col.innerText);    //Will give you the td value
        }
      }
    }
}