jquery - Get HTML table column values in array

Question

I have this HTML table markup

    <table id="tblPtPrtDtl">
  <tbody><tr>
    <th>File Number</th>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Status</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">3344</button></td>
    <td>Maria Anders</td>
    <td>Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">4323</button></td>
    <td>Francisco Chang</td>
    <td>Mexico</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">3466</button></td>
    <td>Roland Mendel</td>
    <td>Austria</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">5432</button></td>
    <td>Helen Bennett</td>
    <td>UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">3455</button></td>
    <td>Yoshi Tannamuri</td>
    <td>Canada</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td id="prfn"><button id='prtfilenum' type='button' ">4563</button></td>
    <td>Giovanni Rovelli</td>
    <td>Italy</td>
  </tr>
</tbody></table>

Answer 1

try it

var col_Array = $('#tableid td:nth-child(3)').map(function(){
       return $(this).text();
   }).get()?;