Adding an onclick event to a table row

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1207939/adding-an-onclick-event-to-a-table-row

by Damith Nuwan Sampath

HTML

<div>
    <table id="tableId" border=1>
      <tbody>
        <tr><td>Item one</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Item two</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Item three</td></tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

JavaScript

function addRowHandlers() {
    var table = document.getElementById("tableId");
    var rows = table.getElementsByTagName("tr");
    for (i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
        var currentRow = table.rows[i];
        var createClickHandler = 
            function(row) 
            {
                return function() { 
                                        var cell = row.getElementsByTagName("td")[0];
                                        var id = cell.innerHTML;
                                        alert("id:" + id);
                                 };
            };

        currentRow.onclick = createClickHandler(currentRow);
    }
}
window.onload = addRowHandlers();