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HTML

<table align="center" id="tblMain" border="1" style="cursor: pointer;">
        <tr>
            <td>
                R1C1
            </td>
            <td>
                R1C2
            </td>
            <td>
                R1C3
            </td>
            <td>
                R1C4
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                R2C1
            </td>
            <td>
                R2C2
            </td>
            <td>
                R2C3
            </td>
            <td>
                R2C4
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                R3C1
            </td>
            <td>
                R3C2
            </td>
            <td>
                R3C3
            </td>
            <td>
                R3C4
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                R4C1
            </td>
            <td>
                R4C2
            </td>
            <td>
                R4C3
            </td>
            <td>
                R4C4
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>

JavaScript

$('table').find('td').click(function(){
   alert($(this).text());
});