Javascript: Get Cell's Column Id

For example: I want to accomplish what the following psuedo code does var intCol = document.getElementById('x').column Is there a way to do this?

Solution 1:

Why can't you use cellIndex?

On this page:

$('.postcell')[0].cellIndex> 1$('.votecell')[0].cellIndex> 0

I know people hate W3Schools, but they do provide a good basic dataset: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_tabledata_cellindex.asp