Get all rows in the "current" table, and not from child tables

Question

How can you get all rows in a table without getting the rows in child tables?

var rows = $('tr', tbl);

This will return ALL <tr> tags, including all rows in child tables.

Answer 1

var rows = $('#tblID > tbody > tr')

The child selector will get the table's <tbody> element and consequently get the <tr> elements that are direct children of the table's tbody.

If you already have a table object:

var rows = $(tbl).find('> tbody > tr');

Or:

var rows = $(tbl).children('tbody').children('tr');

Here is a working example.

Answer 2

var count = $('#tableID').rows;

It works, because the selector will return a HTMLTableElement object.