JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>4</td>
    </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

// array of text of each td
var texts = $("td").map(function() {
    return $(this).text();
});

console.log(texts);