I have a table and I was able to select the first cell of each row successfully, but I can not use the same code to select the second cell of each row. Please help me select and change the CSS of the second cell of each row. The reason that I don't use normal CSS is because these are future cells of a table.

$("#part_rows tr td:first-child").css("width","150px");

The above one works fine, but the following does not work.

$("#part_rows tr td:second-child").css("width","150px");

I have a table and I was able to select the first cell of each row successfully, but I can not use the same code to select the second cell of each row. Please help me select and change the CSS of the second cell of each row. The reason that I don't use normal CSS is because these are future cells of a table.

$("#part_rows tr td:first-child").css("width","150px");

The above one works fine, but the following does not work.

$("#part_rows tr td:second-child").css("width","150px");

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Use the nth-child selector:

$("#part_rows tr td:nth-child(2)").css("width","150px");

If you plan to use jQuery, an hour spent browsing through the entire list of jQuery methods and selectors will save you a lot of time down the track...

"the reason that I dont use normal css because these are future cells of a table."

Did you try with "normal" CSS? I think you'll find that it works on elements that are added dynamically.

you are looking for the :nth-child selector

$("#part_rows tr").find('td:eq(1)')

In jQuery bining .find() - you can use 2 nice guys that do the job pretty well. You can take a look:

http://api.jquery./find/
http://api.jquery./eq/
http://api.jquery./eq-selector/