# RE: Hotlinking an entire row in an HTML table

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-hotlinking-an-entire-row-in-an-html-table/61867>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 17, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-hotlinking-an-entire-row-in-an-html-table/61867 "2006-01-17T01:27:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-hotlinking-an-entire-row-in-an-html-table/61867/1 "2006-01-17T01:27:45Z")

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Dave Davidson wrote:

> Any insights into the best way of doing this? I’m thinking it would  
> be a JS solution, but I’m not really familiar enough with it to know  
> which angle to attack it from.

Hi Dave,

I solved this by adding the following to every

 in the row:

Maybe there is a way to make the javascript act on the

, but I  
wasn’t able to find it easily. Adding this to each works just fine.

Matt

–  
Matt C. Wagner  
Information Security Analyst

Network Intrusion Detection  
Security Operations Center  
Corporate Information Security  
Wells Fargo Bank

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-hotlinking-an-entire-row-in-an-html-table/61867/2 "2006-01-21T15:40:27Z")

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To hijack this thread a little, how do you make it so the popup  
windows sends information back to the main window? Like clicking a  
link could bring up a specific search popup, user clicks results and  
those results go back to the main?

- Nic.

On 1/16/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> onClick=“window.location=‘show/\<%= foobar[:id] %\>’”\>  
> Network Intrusion Detection  
> Security Operations Center  
> Corporate Information Security  
> Wells Fargo Bank
> 
> * * *
> 
> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

–

- Nic

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-hotlinking-an-entire-row-in-an-html-table/61867/3 "2006-01-21T15:40:40Z")

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On 1/16/06, Nic W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > > Any insights into the best way of doing this? I’m thinking it would  
> > > Maybe there is a way to make the javascript act on the , but I  
> > > Corporate Information Security
> 
> - Nic
> 
> * * *
> 
> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

This looks like a job for Behaviour:

[http://bennolan.com/behaviour/](http://bennolan.com/behaviour/)

–  
Kyle M.  
Chief Technologist  
E Factor Media // FN Interactive  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
1-866-263-3261
