I am having a huge brain fart with efficiency right now.The idea here is if I have a static table (unfortunately formatted this way with the data I've received), how would I appropriately append a select option dropdown with every value from the table categorized easily?I currently have it working, but it seems as if I could make it more efficient than my current statement. I have the feeling with all the DOM manipulation I have going on, if I tried to use this on a table with thousands of items it would lag the browser. Let's get to the code.JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/z2V2p/1/HTML:<table id='data'>    <tr>      <td>Item 1</td>      <td>Value 1</td>      <td>Prop 1</td>    </tr>    <tr >      <td>Item 2</td>      <td>Value 2</td>      <td>Prop 2</td>    </tr>    <tr >      <td>Item 3</td>      <td>Value 3</td>      <td>Prop 3</td>    </tr></table><select id=item></select><select id=value></select><select id=prop></select>Javascript/jQuery:$('tr td').each(function() {    var $this = $(this);    var text = $this.text();    var select = '<option value='+text+'>'+text+'</option>';    switch($this.index()){        case 0:          $('#item').append(select);          break;        case 1:          $('#value').append(select);          break;        case 2:          $('#prop').append(select);          break;        default:          alert('Unexpected Error.');     }});So, I suppose the questions are:Is there any easy way to make this more efficient?Perhaps utilizing an array to cache the values, and append themfrom that?Or is there an easier method of using index of the items instead ofmy switch case that would render quicker and be more expandable for further tds if they were implemented?I appreciate all of the help.I've considered just ultimately converting the darn table to a json object, but I figured I'd reach out here first. (this will deploy thousands of times per week, and I don't want anything hard coded.)Looking for a way to add every TD in its index of its TR to be appended to an existing select option based on the index value.Basically re-categorize columns of td elements.
Append table cells to select boxes in indexed order
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