php - Access <td> text on click

Question

I want to get the text of just which table data is clicked on. i.e. get $post_no value if clicked on post_no, get the word 'description' if clicked on description. I have tried a number of ways but cannt get what i want. whats the approach?

my php code:

echo "<table border=1>";
        echo "<tr><th>Post No</th><th>Writer ID</th><th>Writer Name</th><th>Title</th><th>Description</th><th>Summary</th><th>Approval</th></tr>";
        while ($row=  mysqli_fetch_array($r2)){
            $post_no=$row['post_no'];
            $writer_id=$row['writer_id'];
            $writer_name=$row['writer_name'];
            $title=$row['title'];
            $description=$row['description'];
            $summary=$row['summary'];


            echo "<tr height='50' class='x"."". " '>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".$post_no."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".$writer_id."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".$writer_name."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".$title."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".'description'."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>".'summary'."</td>";
            echo "<td class='r'>Approve</td>";
            echo "</tr>";
        }
        echo "</table>";

javascript code;

<script>
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $(".x").each(function(i){
                $(this).click(function(){
                    console.log($(this).children().eq(i).text());
                });
            });
        });
    </script>

Answer 1

I would do this

$('.x').click(function (e) {
    var $target = $(e.target);
    console.log($target.text());
});