How to loop through a table and read the first colum in every rowspan
<p>How do I read each and every value of the first column using jquery?</p>

<p>I have the code  which is not working.</p>

<pre><code>$("foo:eq(1) tr").each(function(){
                alert(  $(this).find('td:first[rowspan]').text());
            });

 &lt;table id="foo" border="1px"&gt; 
    &lt;tr&gt;                      
      &lt;td rowspan='3' id="date"&gt; Monday5 &lt;/td&gt; 
      &lt;td id="Name"&gt;Jim &lt;/td&gt; 
    &lt;/tr&gt; 
    &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td id="Name"&gt; Remy &lt;/td&gt;    
&lt;/tr&gt;    
&lt;/table&gt; 
</code></pre>
