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HTML

<button>Add new list item</button>
    <p>Click the above button to dynamically add new list items. You can remove it later.</p>
    <table id="main">
    <tr>
        <td>list item 1 </td>
        <td>list item 2 </td>
        <td>list item 3 </td>
        <td ><input type='button' value='Update' name ='updateBox' id='updateBox' /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>list item 4</td>
        <td>list item 5</td>
        <td>list item 6</td>
        <td ><input type='button' value='Update' name ='updateBox' id='updateBox' /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>list item 7</td>
        <td>list item 8</td>
        <td>list item 9</td>
        <td ><input type='button' value='Update' name ='updateBox' id='updateBox' /></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    <a name="texti" id="texti"> x </a>

JavaScript

$('#main').find('tr input').on("click", function() {
             var customerId =  $(this).closest('tr').find('td:eq(2)').text();
             $('#texti').text(customerId);
});