this.rowIndex question

webdev

Folks,

Can someone please tell me why this simple piece of code, irritatingly,
fails to give the expected result?

Regards
Rae MacLeman

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Code</title>
</head>
<body>
<table id="table1" border="1">
<tr>
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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Jul 23 '05 #1

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Michael Winter

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:45:23 +0100, webdev <so*****@microsofdt.com> wrote:

Can someone please tell me why this simple piece of code, irritatingly,
fails to give the expected result?
[snip]
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>

[snip]

Table cells don't have a rowIndex property, rows do.

onclick="alert(this.parentNode.rowIndex);"

retrieves the containing row, and its index within the table.

Mike

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Jul 23 '05 #2

Richard Cornford

webdev wrote:

Can someone please tell me why this simple piece of code,
irritatingly, fails to give the expected result?
Not unless you state what your expectation is. I would be expecting the
alerts to report "undefined" or fail to operate (having no string
argument) depending on the browser.

<snip><tr>
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>
</tr>

<snip>

Are you expecting the TD elements to have a rowIndex property? If you
are interested in the rowIndex of the containing TR you might try -
this.parentNode.rowIndex -.

Richard.

Jul 23 '05 #3

webdev

"Richard Cornford" <Ri*****@litotes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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webdev wrote:
Can someone please tell me why this simple piece of code,
irritatingly, fails to give the expected result?

Not unless you state what your expectation is. I would be expecting the
alerts to report "undefined" or fail to operate (having no string
argument) depending on the browser.

<snip>
<tr>
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>
</tr>

<snip>

Are you expecting the TD elements to have a rowIndex property? If you
are interested in the rowIndex of the containing TR you might try -
this.parentNode.rowIndex -.

Richard.

My expectation was that it would return the rowindex ;0)

I'm wiser now

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Jul 23 '05 #4

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"Michael Winter" <M.******@blueyonder.co.invalid> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:45:23 +0100, webdev <so*****@microsofdt.com> wrote:
Can someone please tell me why this simple piece of code, irritatingly,
fails to give the expected result?

[snip]
<td onClick="alert(this.rowIndex);">Tell me which row</td>

[snip]

Table cells don't have a rowIndex property, rows do.

onclick="alert(this.parentNode.rowIndex);"

retrieves the containing row, and its index within the table.

Mike

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Thanks Mike - I'd already tried "parentNode.rowIndex" somewhere along the
line.

Rae
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