getting .text() of children elements from jQuery()

Question

I'm having trouble to get the proper formatted texts of each child elements, either as an Array or in as text.

I had tried

var name= jQuery(".childOne").text(); var number = jQuery(".childTwo").text();

but it joins all the name/number text in name and number.

HTML is:

<span class="parent"><span class="childOne">David</span><span class="childTwo">541</span></span>
<span class="parent"><span class="childOne">Gruce</span><span class="childTwo">162</span></span>
<span class="parent"><span class="childOne">Proman</span><span class="childTwo">743</span></span>

and I need to generate output in multi-dim-array so that each child-element's-text can be figured out properly.

Preferred output can be in array or in any form.

Array
(
    0 = > array (
            0 => "David",
            1 => "541"
        ),

    1 = > array (
            0 => "Gruce",
            1 => "162"
        ),

    2 = > array (
            0 => "Proman",
            1 => "743"
        )
)

Answer 1

I have made a working example

var array= [];


$('.parent').each(function(index) {
   array.push({
        'name': $(this).children('.childOne').text(),
        'number': $(this).children('.childTwo').text()
    });
  });
alert(array[0].name);

Answer 2

try this:

var data = [];

$('span.parent').each(function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    data.push({
        'name' : $this.find('span.childOne').text(),
        'number' : $this.find('span.childTwo').text()
    });
});

BTW: jQuery uses the Sizzle selctor engine. You should define the element type before the class, like span.parent. This is much more faster.