> Hello
>
> First off if this is a double post I apoligize, I sent my first
> message an hour ago and it is not showing up.  Anyway:
>
> I've wondered if there is a way to do this for a while.  Perhaps I am
> missing something or should use a different approach altogether.
>
> Say I have a dynamic page that generates some td elements.   The
> syntax here is freemarker but you can easily envision your favorite
> serverside text generating language instead.
>
> <table id="records">
> <thead><th>Name</th></thead>
> <tbody>
> [#list records as record]
>  <tr>
>    <td class="trigger" id="trigger_${record.ID}" onclick="showDetails
> (${record.ID})">${record.name}</td>
>  </tr>
> [/#list]
> </tbody>
> </table>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>  function showDetails(recordID)  {
>    // normally an ajax post but you get the idea
>    window.location = '/record?recordID=' + recordID
>  }
> </script>
>
> Now I want to get that onclick out of there and bind it using jquery,
> but i haven't been able to figure out if there is a way to get the
> parameter there. Apart from putting it in some attribute and looking
> at it.  Is there a cleaner way?
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>  $(document).ready(function()  {
>      $('#records td.trigger').click(function()  {
>             window.location = '/record?recordID=' + ??? how do i get
> that
>      });
>  });
> </script>
>
> I know I could look at the elements attributes, something like
> this.attr("id").substring().etc().etc() .. but sometimes there are
> many parameters to the javascript fn to generate the post and that
> approach doesn't seem to viable. and there isn't really a standard
> attribute to use that makes sense for that anyway.  So how do I do
> this?
>
> Thanks