Topic: Making a cell clickable

Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to make an entire tablecell clickable?

Basically I need to put a href around the whole thing... sounds easy enough eh? Well, the problem is that the solution needs to work in the latest browsers as well as older ones as far back as NS4.6.

I'm not sure if this works in NN4, but in all the newer ones it should do the job:

<td onclick="location.href='anotherpage.html';">
<p>Cell Contents</p>
</td>

I'll see if I can find that old magazine CD I had lying around here and get that oldie installed again.

[edit: No luck...]



[This message has been edited by kuckus (edited 12-03-2002).]

Hallo kuckus and thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I've already tried something similar as well as your suggestion and it doesn't work in NN4.x. Wish I could ignore it but compatibility with NN4 is a requirement. :-( Thanks for trying though.



[This message has been edited by BlueHarvest (edited 12-03-2002).]

Hmmm... I think the problem is that NN4 doesn't allow onclick in many places, like only in <a> and <div> and a few other tags.

What exactly are you going to put into the table cells? Nothing but the links? Then you could try to put the onclick=... into the <a> tags and see if Netscape can stretch their width to 100% via CSS to make the whole cell clickable. Or you could see if putting a <div> with the onlick event handler around the whole content of the cell does the trick.

Yeah, I thought of that too and fiddled with various width 100% solutions but had no luck.

The table is a long row of cells with one cell for each day in a calendar. The cells contain a couple of database queries which generate output in text. Some of the text is linked to pages generated by the database and some of the text is plain.

Rather than just making all the text clickable it would have been a neater solution to just have the entire cell clickable. No problem in IE but NN completely fouls the job.

Does the solution just have to work in NN4 without any adverse effects (in other words, degrade gracefully in NN4), or does it have to work in NN4 *exactly* the way it does in a contemporary browser?

If the latter, skip this. If the former...

TD A {
display: block;
}

This makes the whole cell clickable (assuming the entire cell contents are contained within the <a> tag) in a contemporary browser and in NN4, IE4 and Opera 5 & 6, only the text is clickable as it is in an ordinary link.

That's defenetly a step in the right direction. Just as long as it doesn't look somepletely trashed in NN4 it's okay. Thanks for the idea!!

It's one of my favorites. I use it in calendar grids too. It also works nicely in DIVs.

I learned it at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ Lotsa neat stuff there.

Cool! Thanks for the link. I'm always looking for inspiration and I loved their demos.

This is interesting. I recall hotmail implimenting this feature befor they revamped everything, and it was up for quite a while. That must have been cross-browser compatible.

Do yourself a favor and consult the super-colossal msdn (microsoft developer's network) You may find at first a javascript that is only friendly to the new IE6, but most times there are more than one solution presented.


Hey, Nice sig Brucew ^_~

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Cheers mate, I'll try that. :-)