jquery parse html table should be an array but not

Question

In this url: http://es.finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=%5EJKSE If I test this selector expresion in the console...

 $('#yfncsumtab .yfnc_tableout1 tr td table tbody')

...it returns html table (but not in an array):

 <table>...</table>

Can anybody explain me why I am not obtaining an array contaning the html table??? That's the reason why I cannot apply .each(), .text() ... I think.

When I test the same selector to another website's table it always returns:

 [<table>...</table>]

And with that response, I can apply .each() o whatever jQuery method.

First statement doesn't make sense. Please create a demo that diesplays this behavior — charlietfl, Mar 02 '15 at 11:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Type jQuery in the console and you'll see it's undefined.

So what's that $ then?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

Community

answered Mar 02 '15 at 11:45

Stefan Kendall

Thank you so much, I didn't know that without jquery implemented in the website I could'nt use it to parse the html. I will try with javascript directly, that's the problem for sure. – AlexAcc Mar 02 '15 at 14:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '15 at 11:46

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Since there is no JQUERY in the web page, you can use the following to loop through:

document.getElementsByClassName("yfnc_tableout1")[0].getElementsByTagName("table")[0].getElementsByTagName("tr")

answered Mar 02 '15 at 11:46

ArinCool

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