HTML Table

HTML

<table id="codexpl">
    <tr>
        <td>1, 2</td>
        <td>This, that</td>
        <td>Column</td>
        <td>Is</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>Coloumn</td>
        <td>two</td>
        <td>this</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>is</td>
        <td>not equals</td>
        <td>a</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>4</td>
        <td>the</td>
        <td>Column</td>
        <td>real</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>5</td>
        <td>first</td>
        <td>One</td>
        <td>Coloumn</td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS

#codexpl th, #codexpl td{
    padding:0.8em;
    border: 1px solid;
}
#codexpl th{
    background-color:#6699FF;
    font-weight:bold;
}

JavaScript

var array = $('table tr:first td').map(function () {
    return $(this).text();
}).get();
console.log(array)
alert(JSON.stringify(array));
alert(JSON.stringify(array));