thanks - will try this - i meant grabbing the A link href and creating an on-click event for the row - didn't look back at another page where i built the onclick for the row by a different method
this will definitely save me time :) On Apr 19, 3:45 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to clarify, your row can't have an href as that's not a valid > attribute, but you can put a click handler on the row and have it > access the contained anchor to get the href. This might get you > started: > > $('tr.row').click(function(){ > var href = $(this).find('a').attr('href'); > > }) > > Be aware that depending upon how your markup is structured, a user > could click the anchor itself and that would be followed, so you might > want to return false if that's not desirable behavior. > > On Apr 19, 12:35 pm, kevind <kevint...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I want to make rows in a table clickable. the row already contains a > > link in a TD cell which works - however, i've added a hover effect to > > the table and want to copy the href from the link and add it to the > > row itself > > > all rows in the table have class .Row to make selection through > > JQuery easier. > > > I can add href fairly easily to the rows, but i don't understand how > > to scan the row for a link (there is only one) and copy it to the > > row's href. > > > HELP