Yes, I did mean position as in row, column. In fact the code I had was fine, except for one thing: in the alert, I was trying to use the event itself (e) rather than the target (t). (I didn't understand the (e && ...) code.)
Changing to "alert(t.cellIndex + ', ' + t.parentNode.rowIndex)" works fine in FF and IE both. Your suggestion started me on the right track, and http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html took me the rest of the way. Thanks, Matt On 6/19/07, Scott Sauyet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Conrad wrote: > > I'm trying to find the cleanest way to get the position (x, y) of a > > table cell that is clicked. I'll eventually post the coordinates back > > to the server. > > By (x, y) you mean (row, column) right, not pixel measurements? That's > what the code seemed to attempt. > > Without a live example, I'm going to be simply guessing, but, hey, > that's never bothered me before! :-) > > > function handleClick(e) > > { > > var t; > > if (e && ((t = e.target) || (t = e.srcElement))) > > { > > alert(e.target.cellIndex + ', ' + e.target.parentNode.rowIndex); > > } > > } > > I'm guessing that the target in IE is not the TD you are on. Perhaps > it's a text node inside your TD. > > You might add something like this (untested): > > if (!$(t).is("td")) { > t = $(t).parents("td")[0]; > } > > That should, I believe, give you the first TD containing the cell you > are interested in. > > You can see more about parents at > > http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing#parents.28_expr_.29 > > > Good luck, > > -- Scott > >
