title: how to select all first td's inside all <tr> in to an array
body: <p>I need to get all the rows first td in to an javascript array and a do a check of if element exist in array print something.</p>
  
  <p>can i please know how this can be done with jquery or javascript ?  </p>
  
  <p>I have created a fiddler here. <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/RXD2u/1/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/RXD2u/1/</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;table id="tbl_dynamic_call_dates" border="1"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;07/10/2013&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Cell B&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;08/10/2013&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Cell B&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;09/10/2013&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Cell B&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Cell A&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Cell B&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 1</strong> I should ommit the first row and get all others. i tried an asnwer as given below but it doesnt ommit the first row.</p>
  
  <pre><code>var arr = $('#tbl_dynamic_call_dates tr td:first-child').map(function () {
      return $.trim($(this).text())
  }).get();
  </code></pre>