Check out the "Event Delegation" section of this excellent article
http://www.learningjquery.com/2008/03/working-with-events-part-1 On Oct 31, 12:07 pm, "c.barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a project where we have a table and each row is > clickable (but only certain columns within that row), but we cannot > use an <a> tag for other reasons. Currently I have to attach click > events to the proper table cells, which works just fine, it's just > inefficient. > > If I have a table with 50 rows, and 3 cells in each row need click > events, that's 150 events attached! We're also doing ajax pagination, > so each time we page over that's another 150 events to attach. > > So my question is, can I attach a single click event to the entire > table, and then determine which element was clicked within that?
