How can I find out what index is the table I want to import from a web page?

Question

Need some help with importhtml() function as I am trying to import table from html that has many tables. Its syntax is this:

IMPORTHTML(url, query, index)

What I don't understand is how can I find out what index is the table I want to import from HTML? Shouldn't there be an attribute for table element that says: OK, you are table number 8 on this page. I doubt I have go through entire html and count how many tables there are before the one I need.

Basically, I need to find out on what should I be concentrating on when going through html which hold desired table.

Answer 1

From the web page, from google developers console enter below to find table numbers

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var i = 1; [].forEach.call(document.getElementsByTagName("table"),
   function(x) { console.log(i++, x); });

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var i = 1; [].forEach.call(document.getElementsByTagName("list"), 
   function(x) { console.log(i++, x); });