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    <p>If you want to go the old-fashioned pure-JavaScript way, you could do some simple DOM traversal.</p> <p>If you add an <code>id</code> to the table, your life will be much easier, especially if you have (or may later add) other tables in the page.</p> <pre><code>&lt;table id="nameTable"&gt; ... &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now you can access the table in JavaScript and store a reference to it in a variable. You will also want to initialize an empty array/list variable to hold the names later.</p> <pre><code>var nameTable = document.getElementById("nameTable"); var nameArray = []; </code></pre> <p>Next, you begin looping through the child elements of the table, each of which will be a <code>tr</code> (table row) element.</p> <pre><code>for (var i=0; i&lt;nameTable.childNodes.length; i++) { ... } </code></pre> <p>Inside that <code>for</code> loop you will build your list of [first name, last name] pairs. You will do this by grabbing the value of each of the two <code>td</code> (table data cell) children of the current row.</p> <pre><code> var dataCells = nameTable.childNodes[i].childNodes; var namePair = [dataCells[0].innerHTML, dataCells[1].innerHTML]; </code></pre> <p>That should give you a JSON array something like this (my values added):</p> <pre><code>[ ["Andy", "Jackson"], ["Barry", "Obama"], ["Benny", "Franklin"], ["Georgey", "Washington"], ["Billy", "Clinton"] ] </code></pre> <p>To review, the full code would look something like this:</p> <pre><code>var nameTable = document.getElementById("nameTable"); var nameArray = []; for (var i=0; i&lt;nameTable.childNodes.length; i++) { var dataCells = nameTable.childNodes[i].childNodes; var namePair = [dataCells[0].innerHTML, dataCells[1].innerHTML]; } </code></pre> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This is fun, but it is likely that the better solution, if you don't mind a hard-coded JSON array in your source code (if you've got the table there anyway it really doesn't matter), is probably to print a <code>json_encode</code>d array in a <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> tag straight from the PHP, like @JayBhatt suggested. It is likely the faster method, and it puts much less stress on the user's browser.</p>
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    2. COI'm getting a `type error - nameTable is null`. I tried putting the code inside a `window.onload` to make sure I wasn't trying to get the reference before it was loaded, but that makes no difference...
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    3. CODid you add `id="nameTable"` to your `<table>` tag? Also, in your `getElementById` call, is it in quotes?
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