title: jQuery - Select first cell of a given row?
body: <p>I have a table with images in one column.  When I click the image,  would like to get the text value of the first column in that row.</p>
  
  <p>I can get the whole row with this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var a = $(this).parents('tr').text();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I cannot isolate the first cell of the row.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>var a = $(this).parents('tr td:first').text();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that just returns the first cell of the entire table.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me out?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>