Hello. I am trying to get the value of first td in each tr when a users clicks "click".

The result below will output aa ,ee or ii. I was thinking about using clesest('tr')..but it always output "Object object". Not sure what to do on this one. Thanks.

My html is

<table>
<tr>
  <td>aa</td>
  <td>bb</td>
  <td>cc</td>
  <td>dd</td>
  <td><a href="#" class="hit">click</a></td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td>ee</td>
  <td>ff</td>
  <td>gg</td>
  <td>hh</td>
  <td><a href="#" class="hit">click</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>ii</td>
  <td>jj</td>
  <td>kk</td>
  <td>ll</td>
  <td><a href="#" class="hit">click</a></td>
</tr>

</table>

Jquery

$(".hit").click(function(){

 var value=$(this).// not sure what to do here

 alert(value)  ;

});