jQuery, how to get TD's where not contains HREF attribute

**seannarae** · 10-07-2009, 07:27 PM

I have a simple fictitious table below.
Column 1 contains plain text.
Columns 2 & 3 contain links.
Using jQuery, i'd like to get those TDs in the 1st column for CSS alteration.

I've had success using:

Code:

$("td:contains('Read')").css("font-weight","bold");

But this wont work for that 1st column because i wont know the values of those TDs. What i can do is rely on the requirement that all other TDs will contain HREF

So essentially what i'm stumped on is how to re-syntax it so that i get the 1st columns TDs by telling the page to get all TDs where not contains HREF

Code:

<table id="myTable"> 
<thead> 
    <tr> 
        <th id="col_01">FEATURE</th> 
        <th id="col_02">REVIEW 1</th> 
        <th id="col_03">REVIEW 2</th> 
    </tr> 
</thead> 
<tbody> 
    <tr> 
        <td>FEATURE NAME</td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
        <td>FEATURE NAME</td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
    </tr> 
    <tr> 
        <td>FEATURE NAME</td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
        <td><a href="#">Read</a></td>
    </tr> 
</tbody> 
</table>

Any thoughts?