Return number of rows in HTML TABLE

[MrPeds]

Hi,

I am a newbie to JavaScript so please bear with me.

I have 2 related questions please.

1) Is there a simple way of returning the number of rows in an html table in a JavaScript function?

2) If I have an HTML table looking a bit like this:

Name Date Comment
Fred 2006-10-11 some comment
Bob 2006-10-11 another comment
Fred 2006-10-12 foo bar

Is there any way of returning the number of rows in the html table for a given Name, e.g. where Name = 'Fred' ?

ANy help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Peds

 

[cLFlaVA]

1) this is easy:

var myTable = document.getElementById("myTableId");
alert(myTable.rows.length;

2) this would require some looping through the rows, retrieving the first table cell within the row, checking the innerHTML of that cell, then incrementing a counter.



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