I have a table in which the table row tag is decorated with an onclick() handler. If the row is clicked anywhere, it will load another page. In one of the elements on the row, is an anchor tag which also leads to another page.
The desired behavior is that if they click on the link, "delete.html" is loaded. If they click anywhere else in the row, "edit.html" is loaded.
The problem is that sometimes (according to users) both the link
and the onclick() are fired at once, leading to a problem in the back end code. They swear they are not double-clicking.
I don't know enough about Javascript event bubbling, handling
and whatever to even know where to start with this bizarre problem, so I'm asking for help. Here's a fragment of the rendered page, showing the row with the embedded link
and associated script tag. Any suggestions are welcomed:
<tr id="tableRow_3339_0" class="odd">
<td class="l"></td>
<td>PENDING</td>
<td>Yabba Dabba Doo</td>
<td>Fred Flintstone</td>
<td>
<a href="/delete.html?requestId=3339">
<div class="deleteButtonIcon"></div>
</a>
</td>
<td class="r"></td>
</tr>
<script type="text/javascript">document.getElementById("tableRow_3339_0").onclick = function(event) { window.location = '//edit.html?requestId=3339'; };</script>
