JS Click event issue.

[MadTogger]

Hi,

I have a download counter on my website, here, that I am trying to get to work correctly.

The files for download are displayed in a 2 column table along with their respective download counts.

Here is the code that displays the table and files on the page:

<center>
<table>
<tr>
<td>File Name</td>
<td>Downloads</td>
</tr>
 <?php 
 
        foreach($files_array as $key=>$val)
        {
            echo '
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.madtogger.co.uk/dlc_download.php?file='.urlencode($val).'">'.substr($val, 0, strpos($val, '.')).'</a></td>
<td><span class="download-count">'.(int)$file_downloads[$val].'</span></td>
</tr>';
        }
 
    ?>
 
</table>
</center>
 

When the user clicks on a file it initiates the download process and updates the counter via a call to my js script, see below:-

$(document).ready(function(){
    /* This code is executed after the DOM has been completely loaded */
 
    $('tr').click(function(){
 
        var countSpan = $('.download-count',this);
        countSpan.text( parseInt(countSpan.text())+1);
    });
});
 

Now my problem is that the click event is on the <TR> tag of the table and even when a user clicks in cell2 of the table the counter will increase, although it does return to normal after a page refresh but obviously the file download will not start.

I would really like to isolate the event so it only actually happens when cell1 where the actual filename is, is clicked.

I have tried changing the event to happen on the <TD> tag, while this still activates the download, the counter will not increase and I still have the same problem in clicking on cell2 increases the counter without downloading.

I hope all this makes some kind of sense and would appreciate any help at all.

Regards

K..,

[Dormilich]

as far as I can tell, the download is not triggered by JavaScript …

if you put the increment event in the TD, you have to fetch the span from the next sibling. jQuery certainly has an accessor for that.

[MadTogger]

Thanks for the reply.

I am pretty new at all this but I do understand that the download is not triggered by the js file, that seems to be only used for updating the counter.

How would you code it to resolve the issue I am having?

An example would probably suffice for me to then work through it.

Regards..,

K

[Dormilich]

I don’t know because I don’t use jQuery. you have to search in the documentation or ask someone good at jQuery.