(function ($) {
    $.fn.tabletojson = function (options) {
        var defaults = {
            headers: null,  // add headers seperated by commas if you don't want to use headers in table
            attribHeaders: null, //if you pass in JSON like {'attribute name':'fieldname'} -
            //	"{'customerID':'CustomerID','orderID':'OrderID'}", the plugin will find these attributes
            // and build elements using the fieldname you indicate.
            returnElement: null,
            // if you add a hidden field id like e.g. 	
            //$("#myTable").tabletojson({returnElement:'#myInputElement'})   
            //here then the chain won't be broken and the json will be dumped to myInputElement, 
            //else, this plugin will just return the json, e.g. var json = 
            //$("#myTable").tabletojson()     
            complete: null  //pass me a function and I'll dish you the json
        };

        var options = $.extend(defaults, options);
        var selector = this;
        var jsonRowItem = ""
        var jsonItem = new Array();
        var jsonRow = new Array();
        var heads = []
        var rowCounter = 1
        var comma = ",";
        var json = "";

        if (options.headers != null) {
            options.headers = options.headers.split(' ').join('');
            //this is in case you delimit like this ddd, dddd, ddddd instead of
            heads = options.headers.split(",");
            // ddd,dddd,ddddd,ddd  I gotta remove the spaces to make this work 
        }   //right.



        var rows = $(":not(tfoot) > tr", this).length;
        $(":not(tfoot) > tr", this).each(function (i, tr) {
            $(tr).filter(':has(:checkbox:checked)').each(function () { //to filter checkbox checked value
                jsonRowItem = ""

                //use return to continue and return false to exit loop
                if (this.parentNode.tagName == "TFOOT") {
                    return;  //we don't care about the footer so continue on...
                }
                if (this.parentNode.tagName == "THEAD") {
                    if (options.headers == null) {  //if we don't indicate headers, then grab the actual headers in thead.
                        $('th', tr).each(function (i, th) {
                            heads[heads.length] = $(th).html()
                        });
                    }
                }
                else {

                    if (options.attribHeaders != null) {
                        var h = eval("(" + options.attribHeaders + ")");

                        for (z in h) {
                            heads[heads.length] = h[z];
                        }
                    }

                    rowCounter++
                    //collect row stuuf
                    var headCounter = 0

                    jsonRowItem = "{"
                    jsonItem.length = 0;
                    var skipCol = -1;
                    $('td', tr).each(function (i, td) {
                        skipCol = skipCol + 1;
                        if (skipCol > 0) {
                            var re = / /gi
                            if (skipCol == 1) {
                                var v = $('#Name' + tr.rowIndex).val().replace(re, '');
                            }
                            else if (skipCol == 2)
                                var v = $(td).html().replace(re, '');
                            else {
                                var v = $('#Type' + tr.rowIndex + ' :selected').val();
                            }
                            jsonItem[jsonItem.length] = "\"" + heads[headCounter] + "\":\"" + v + "\"";
                            headCounter++
                        }
                    });

                    if (options.attribHeaders != null) {
                        for (z in h) {
                            jsonItem[jsonItem.length] = "\"" + heads[headCounter] + "\":\"" + tr[z] + "\"";
                            headCounter++
                        }
                    }

                    jsonRowItem += jsonItem.join(",");
                    jsonRowItem += "}";
                    jsonRow[jsonRow.length] = jsonRowItem;


                }

            });
        });
        json += "[" + jsonRow.join(",") + "]"

        if (options.complete != null) {
            options.complete(json);
        }

        if (options.returnElement == null)
            return json;
        else {
            $(options.returnElement).val(json);
            return this;
        }

    }
})(jQuery)