Can't solve a typeerror with jquery

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I'm pretty sure this is nothing but as I'm new with coding I'm struggling with this problem. I'm trying to make my table navigable with arrows but when I use an arrow it just doesn't work. It seems to be because of a TypeError but I can't succeed to understand what's going wrong. If anyone could explain that would be great !

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Problem seems to come from line 60. This problem started with the fact I was using DataTable script. I then had these lines at the beginning of the js file :

// DataTable //
var table = $('#mytable').DataTable( {
    "paging": false,
    "searching": false,
    "info": false,
    fixedHeader: true,
    colReorder: true,
    stateSave: true,
});

But I wanted to remove that script to not depend about anything else (I'm learning by trying to do everything myself). So I tried to replace it with some vars, but unsuccessfully so far. My highlight function looked like this with DataTable :

        function highlight() { 
        document.querySelectorAll('.highlight-rc').forEach(col => col.classList.remove('highlight-rc'));            
        var colIdx = table.cell(c).index().column;
        $(table.cells().nodes()).removeClass('highlight-rc');
        $(table.column(colIdx).nodes()).addClass('highlight-rc');
        currCell.removeClass('highlight');
        c.addClass('highlight');  
        currCell.parent().removeClass('highlight-rc');
        c.parent().addClass('highlight-rc'); 
    }

Thanks in advance for your kind help. Sincerely,

Voctor · Answer

Thanks to Rory help, I've been able to rethink my function and make it work. I'm posting it here if it can help anyone with the same troubles :

// Navigate with arrows //
var currCell = $('td').first();
var editing = false;

// User clicks on a cell //
$('td').click(function() {
    currCell = $(this);
    // edit(); //
}); 

// User navigates table using keyboard //
$('#mytable tbody').keydown(function(e) {
    var c = "";
    // Function to make highlight follow the navigation //
    function highlight() {
        document.querySelectorAll('.highlight-rc').forEach(col => col.classList.remove('highlight-rc'));
        currCell.removeClass('highlight');
        var navIndex = $(c).index();
        const columns = document.querySelectorAll(`td:nth-child(${navIndex+1})`);
        columns.forEach(col => {
            col.classList.add('highlight-rc');
        c.addClass('highlight');  
        c.parent().addClass('highlight-rc'); 
        })
    }

Can't solve a typeerror with jquery

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