jQuery: selecting each td in a tr

Your $(magicSelector) could be $('td', this). This will grab all td that are children of this, which in your case is each tr. This is the same as doing $(this).find('td').

$('td', this).each(function() {
// Logic
});

You don't need a jQuery selector at all. You already have a reference to the cells in each row via the cells property.

$('#tblNewAttendees tr').each(function() {

    $.each(this.cells, function(){
        alert('hi');
    });

});

It is far more efficient to utilize a collection that you already have, than to create a new collection via DOM selection.

Here I've used the jQuery.each()^(docs) method which is just a generic method for iteration and enumeration.

expanding on the answer above the 'each' function will return you the table-cell html object. wrapping that in $() will then allow you to perform jquery actions on it.

$(this).find('td').each (function( column, td) {
  $(td).blah
});  

You can simply do the following inside your TR loop:

$(this).find('td').each (function() {
  // do your cool stuff
});