UPDATE BOTTOM OF THIS POST
I have a HTML table which looks like:
<table class="table table-hover" id="selectedProductsForContract">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Product</th>
<th>Quantity</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="col-md-8">
<p>Product name</p>
</td>
<td class="col-md-1">
<input type="number" class="form-control" value="1">
</td>
<td class="col-md-2">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">
Remove
</button>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Which I intend to dynamically populate with values from a listbox on selection. I'm generating the listbox using @Html.ListBox()
@Html.ListBox("allProducts", allProductsForSupplier, new { ID = "allProductsListbox", @class = "form-control", @onclick = "AddSelectedProductToTable()" })
The onclick event of the listbox looks like:
<script>
function AddSelectedProductToTable() {
var selectedProduct = $("#allProductsListbox option:selected").text();
$("#selectedProductsForContract").find('tbody')
.append($('<tr>' +
'<td class="col-md-8"><p>' + selectedProduct + '</p></td>' +
'<td class="col-md-1"> <input type="number" class="form-control" value="1"> </td>' +
'<td class="col-md-2"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger" onclick="RemoveSelectedProductFromTable(this)"> Remove </button > </td>' +
'</tr>'));
}
</script>
This does exactly what I want and produces the following:

Once the table is populated, I need to POST the product name and amount selected back to the server.
I have tried several things but the closest I got was using the following:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$("#btnInsert").click(function () {
var itemlist = [];
//get cell values, instead of the header text.
$("table tr:not(:first)").each(function () {
var tdlist = $(this).find("td");
var Item = { ID: $(tdlist[0]).html(), Name: $(tdlist[1]).html() };
itemlist.push(Item);
})
$.ajax({
url: '@Url.Action("InsertValue", "Contract")', //
dataType: "json",
data: JSON.stringify({ itemlist: itemlist }),
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
success: function (result) {
alert("success");
},
error: function (xhr) {
alert("error");
}
});
});
});
</script>
Which POST's back to following controller:
[HttpPost]
public JsonResult InsertValue(Item[] itemlist)
{
foreach (var i in itemlist)
{
//loop through the array and insert value into database.
}
return Json("Ok");
}
And produces the following output:

I think there is a better way than what I am doing right now but am kind of lost here, I think parsing out the HTML with regex or string manipulation is not the answer here...
Can anyone suggest/guide me towards a decent way of doing what I want? If any questions please ask.
Kind regards!
UPDATE Thanks to @Adyson i have changed the AddSelectedProductToTable() to the following:
$("table tr:not(:first)").each(function () {
var tdlist = $(this).find("td");
var input = $(tdlist[1]).find("input");
var Item = { ID: $(tdlist[0]).text(), Name: $(input[0]).val() };
itemlist.push(Item);
})
Where var input = $(tdlist[1]).find("input"); has been added and i needed to change the text() to val() of this part: Name: $(input[0]).val() to be able to retrieve the values.
THANK YOU SO MUCH ADyson!
$(tdlist[1]).find("input")should get your textbox (assuming it's inside index 1 of your row). Here's the documentation of the find() method. See if that helps. If you get it working I'll post everything as an answer