Advanced javascript

[cancer10]

I have a table. the first table document has a welcome text and the last td has a hyperlink. Is there anyway I can prompt an alert with the text thats on the first td?

Note: there are no IDs/class for the table td in this case.


<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>welcome to my site</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href>Clicky</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

[sharry]

oops sorry dint read about the id, ignore my post :)

[cancer10]

Remember, there is no id or class in the table?

[sharry]

yes i posted a code with id, removed it now

[koolman]

You may try

<a href="javascript:void 0" onclick="alertText(this)"> ..</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
function alertText(obj)
{
alert(obj.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.firstNode.firstNode.innerHTML);
}
</script>

[MMJ]

If its the first td in the whole page use:

alert(document.getElementsByTagName("td")[0].innerHTML);

[yankzilla]

If its the first td in the whole page use:

alert(document.getElementsByTagName("td")[0].innerHTML);

I agree with him. That's what I was going to suggest, was just fetching the first td in the page. Or if it's not, then find out which one it is, and change the number accordingly.