title: jQuery get data from HTML file table or Excel file
body: <p>Getting the text of an HTML file is quite simple using the jq .text() command as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#myTable tr:nth-child(1) td:nth-child(1)').text(); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I need to be able to apply it to get the data from a separate file, rather than a table within the page. So far have not been able to do it. </p>
  
  <p>The file has a lot of data in it, so don't want to load the file into the page. </p>
  
  <p>I'm also having a file size issue when converting the table from excel format to HTML. The HTML file is over 25MB, whereas the Excel file is less than 1MB. </p>
  
  <p>It might, therefore, be better to have the data in an Excel format file and get it from there with a script, but so far I have found it difficult to do this by specifying the line and column.</p>
  
  <p>I'm sure this is quite a simple thing to try and do really, so hopefully someone can give some advice. </p>
  
  <p>A working example: 
  <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/p9SbP/119/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/p9SbP/119/</a></p>