You'll want to unbind the click event for the link, this should work
$(#factsheets td a').unbind('click');
Since the link is inside the cell, a click on the link should still
trigger the link.
Let me know how it goes (I don't get to answer questions very often )
On Jan 13, 1:22 pm, Collectonian <collecton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a bit of code on one page to make an entire table cell a
> clickable area to open a PDF in a new window. It works perfectly,
> unless you click the actual physical link. If someone clicks the link,
> it opens the link twice in two new windows. Inside the usual document
> ready, I have:
>
> $('#factsheets td').click(function() {
> $(this).find('a').each(function(){
> window.open(this.href);
> return false;
> });
>
> });
>
> And a snippet of code from the document:
>
> <table id="factsheets">
> <tr>
> <td rowspan="3" id="factsheetpreview"><img src="/includes/images/
> placeholder_preview.gif" width="306" height="396" /></td>
> <td class="listcell"><a href="/index.cfm/event/getFactSheet/
> whichfactsheet/41/" rel="/dropinn/thumbnails/factsheet_41.jpg">SRAC
> 0230<br />Alligator Production: An Introduction</a></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> How can I fix it so that clicking on the link is considered just a
> single click instead of two, so that only one window opens?
>
> ~~ Summer
