I am reading a table row from one page, and then trying to put the cell contents into various elements on a second page. I have it sort of working, but I'd like to (a) do it properly, and (b) get rid of the extra tags I've picked up.
So my method is....

```
$(document).ready(function() {
  $(function(){
    $('#result_row').load('schedule.html #schedule_list tr:eq(1)',function(){
        var date = $('td:eq(0)',this);
        $('#date').html(date);
        var title = $('td:eq(0)',this);
        $('#title').html(title);
        var speaker = $('td:eq(0)',this);
        $('#speaker').html(speaker);
    });             
  }); 
});

```

and then I have 
 `<div class= "upcoming">
 Next Talk: <span id="speaker"></span> - <span id="title"></span> (<span id="date"></span>)
 </div>
 <span id="result_row"></span>` 

So this works to a point but I have a distinct feeling I'm doing it inefficiently (or wrong) as I'm a jQuery novice. In particular, having an empty `<span id="result_row">` seems incorrect. More importantly, it also imports the `<td>` tags into the `<span>` elements, which I'd like to avoid. All attempts to innerHTML failed (e.g. `var date = $('td:eq(0)',this).innerHTML;`

Thanks for any help,

Nick

**EDIT**: So now I can either do this three times

```
var date = $('td:eq(0)',this).text();
$('#date').text(date);

```

to avoid getting the `<td>` tags. Or I can do this

```
var data = $.find('td',this);
$('#date').html(data[0]);
$('#speaker').html(data[1]);
$('#title').html(data[2]);

```

which I think looks a lot clearer (and I assume the last three lines could be done in one). Sadly .text() doesn't seem to work, so I'm stuck with `<td>`'s in my output.