[selenium] How to get text from each cell of an HTML table?

In Selenium 2.0, I have no idea how to traverse through a HTML table in a webpage. In selenium2.0 javadoc, I found two classes "TableFinder" and "TableCellFinder", but I couldn't find any examples.

I want to do something like this:

RowCount=Get how many rows are there in the html table

for each row of the table
{
   column_count=Get column count
   for each column
   {
      cell_value=get_text_from(row,col);
      Do something with cell_value
   }
}

How can I get the text from each of the table cells?

its

selenium.getTable("tablename".rowNumber.colNumber)

not

selenium.getTable("tablename".colNumber.rowNumber)

Another C# example. I just made an extension method for it.

public static string GetCellFromTable(this IWebElement table, int rowIndex, int columnIndex)
    {
        return table.FindElements(By.XPath("./tbody/tr"))[rowIndex].FindElements(By.XPath("./td"))[columnIndex].Text;
    }

$content = '';
    for($rowth=0; $rowth<=100; $rowth++){
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.0") . "\n";
        //$content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.1") . "\n";
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.2") . " ";
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.3") . " ";
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.4") . " ";
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.5") . " ";
        $content .= $selenium->getTable("tblReports.{$rowth}.6") . "\n";

    }

I have not used Selenium 2. Selenium 1.x has selenium.getTable("tablename".columnNumber.rowNumber) to reach the required cell. May be you can use webdriverbackedselenium and do this.

And you can get the total rows and columns by using

int numOfRows = selenium.getXpathCount("//table[@id='tableid']//tr")

int numOfCols=selenium.getXpathCount("//table[@id='tableid']//tr//td")

Here's a C# example I just cooked up, loosely based on the answer using CSS selectors, hopefully of use to others for seeing how to setup a ReadOnlyCollection of table rows and iterate over it in MS land at least. I'm looking through a collection of table rows to find a row with an OriginatorsRef (just a string) and a TD with an image that contains a title attribute with Overdue by in it:

    public ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> GetTableRows()
    {
        this.iwebElement = GetElement();
        return this.iwebElement.FindElements(By.CssSelector("tbody tr"));
    }

And within my main code:

        ...
        ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> TableRows;
        TableRows = f.Grid_Fault.GetTableRows();

        foreach (IWebElement row in TableRows)
        {
            if (row.Text.Contains(CustomTestContext.Current.OriginatorsRef) &&
              row.FindElements(By.CssSelector("td img[title*='Overdue by']")).Count > 0)
                return true;
        }