jQuery: Count number of rows and columns in a table

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:45 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Practical exercise Part - I : Exercise-23

Count number of rows and columns in a table using jQuery.

Sample Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-git.js"></script>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
 <title>Count number of rows and columns in a table using jQuery.</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <table id="table1">
  <tr>
   <th>Tools</th>
    <th>Description</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>phpMyAdmin</td>
	<td>Third party, Free, Web based </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>HeidiSQL</td>
	<td>Third party, Free, For Windows </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Adminer</td>
	<td>Third party, Free</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>DBEdit </td>
	<td>Third party, Free</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>dbForge GUI Tools</td>
	 <td>Third party, Free</td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	 <td> Navicat </td>
	 <td>Third party, Commercial </td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	 <td>Maatkit</td>
	 <td>Third party, Command line, free </td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	 <td>MySQL Sandbox</td>
	 <td>Third party, Command line, free</td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	 <td>SQLBuddy </td>
	 <td> A free Web-based front end, developed in PHP.</td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	 <td>SQLyog </td>
	 <td>Commercial, but a free 'community' edition is available.</td>
	 </tr>
	 <tr>
	  <td>Toad for MySQL </td>
	  <td>Third party, free  from Quest Software</td>
	 </tr>
</table>
 </body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

$.fn.rowCount = function() {
    return $('tr', $(this).find('tbody')).length;
};

$.fn.columnCount = function() {
    return $('th', $(this).find('tbody')).length;
};
var

rowctr = $('#table1').rowCount();
var colctr = $('#table1').columnCount();

console.log('No of Rows:'+rowctr);
console.log('No of Columns:'+colctr);

See the Pen jquery-practical-exercise-23 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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