Clickable Table question

[AndyGroom]

Ringing in my ears - "Don't use Tables" - but I have.

I've got a table containing various cells and if the user clicks any part of the table it acts like a link:

<table style='cursor: hand;' onmouseover="this.bgColor='#FFECD9'" onmouseout="this.bgColor='#FFECB9'" onClick="window.location='bigpage.php?topicid=25'">

However, in one of the cells of the table is a textbox allowing people to leave a comment regarding the content of the table. At the moment they can't enter anything into the textbox because clicking within it triggers the onClick event for the entire table.

Is there a way I can get it so that clicking in the textbox overrides the onClick of the table?

- Andy
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[feherke]

Hi

For standard compliant browsers :

reference_to_your_textbox_whatever_that_means[teal]=[/teal][b]function[/b][teal]([/teal]e[teal])[/teal] [teal]{[/teal]
  e[teal].[/teal]cancelBubble[teal]=[/teal][b]true[/b]
[teal]}[/teal]

Two words anyway : usability nightmare.


Feherke.

 

[AndyGroom]

Thanks for the help.

Unfortunately I'm relatively new to Javascript and I couldn't figure out how to implement your suggestion so I did it a different way by using a global variable IgnoreClick and setting it to 1 if the textbox is clicked. If it's 0 then the page navigates:

<SCRIPT language='Javascript'> 
 
  var IgnoreClick=0;
 
  function TileClick(topicID, topicName)
  {
    if (IgnoreClick==0)
    { 
      window.location="bigpage.php?topicid=" + topicID + "&name=" + topicName;
    }
    IgnoreClick=0;
  }
</SCRIPT>

...

<table style='cursor: hand;' onmouseover="this.bgColor='#FFECD9'" onmouseout="this.bgColor='#FFECB9'" onClick="TileClick(22, 'Global+Warming')">

...

<input onClick="IgnoreClick=1;" type='text' maxlength=15 style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;'>

- Andy
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