title: Extracting data from a table in html?
body: <p>Is it considered bad practice to send data to a back-end application, from an html page that does not contain a <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> or any <code>&lt;input&gt;</code> elements?</p>
  
  <p>Basically, I have a situation where I have to take some data from an html page, pass it to a back-end application, process it and then return some resulting data. Normally, I would have some kind of an html form to extract the data from... However, in my case, I am stuck with nothing but a table. Also, the <code>&lt;table&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;tr&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;td&gt;</code> elements do not have any <code>id</code>. What would be the best way to go about extracting data from the html form to send back using javascript?  </p>