How do I iterate through table rows and cells in JavaScript?

Solution 1:

If you want to go through each row(<tr>), knowing/identifying the row(<tr>), and iterate through each column(<td>) of each row(<tr>), then this is the way to go.

var table = document.getElementById("mytab1");
for (var i = 0, row; row = table.rows[i]; i++) {
   //iterate through rows
   //rows would be accessed using the "row" variable assigned in the for loop
   for (var j = 0, col; col = row.cells[j]; j++) {
     //iterate through columns
     //columns would be accessed using the "col" variable assigned in the for loop
   }  
}

If you just want to go through the cells(<td>), ignoring which row you're on, then this is the way to go.

var table = document.getElementById("mytab1");
for (var i = 0, cell; cell = table.cells[i]; i++) {
     //iterate through cells
     //cells would be accessed using the "cell" variable assigned in the for loop
}

Solution 2:

You can consider using jQuery. With jQuery it's super-easy and might look like this:

$('#mytab1 tr').each(function(){
    $(this).find('td').each(function(){
        //do your stuff, you can use $(this) to get current cell
    })
})

Solution 3:

Try

for (let row of mytab1.rows) 
{
    for(let cell of row.cells) 
    {
       let val = cell.innerText; // your code below
    }
}

for (let row of mytab1.rows) 
{
    for(let cell of row.cells) 
    {
       console.log(cell.innerText)
    }
}

<div id="myTabDiv">
<table name="mytab" id="mytab1">
  <tr> 
    <td>col1 Val1</td>
    <td>col2 Val2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>col1 Val3</td>
    <td>col2 Val4</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>

for ( let [i,row] of [...mytab1.rows].entries() ) 
{
    for( let [j,cell] of [...row.cells].entries() ) 
    {
       console.log(`[${i},${j}] = ${cell.innerText}`)
    }
}

<div id="myTabDiv">
<table name="mytab" id="mytab1">
  <tr> 
    <td>col1 Val1</td>
    <td>col2 Val2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>col1 Val3</td>
    <td>col2 Val4</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>

Solution 4:

var table=document.getElementById("mytab1");
var r=0; //start counting rows in table
while(row=table.rows[r++])
{
  var c=0; //start counting columns in row
  while(cell=row.cells[c++])
  {
    cell.innerHTML='[R'+r+'C'+c+']'; // do sth with cell
  }
}

<table id="mytab1">
  <tr>
    <td>A1</td><td>A2</td><td>A3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>B1</td><td>B2</td><td>B3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>C1</td><td>C2</td><td>C3</td>
  </tr>
</table>

In each pass through while loop r/c iterator increases and new row/cell object from collection is assigned to row/cell variables. When there's no more rows/cells in collection, false is assigned to row/cell variable and iteration through while loop stops (exits).