Click Entire Row (preserving middle click and ctrl+click)

Question

I have an HTML table with a link in the first column. I want to allow the user to click anywhere in the row to activate that link. At the same time, I would like to preser

Answer 1

You want this:

$('table#row_link tbody tr').mousedown( function(e){
    if(e.ctrlKey || (!$.browser.msie && e.button == 1) || ($.browser.msie && e.button == 4)){
        //middle mouse button or ctrl+click
    } else {
        //normal left click
    }
});

This is tested in FF3.0.10, Chrome 1.0 and IE6. I use the mousedown event because neither firefox or IE passes the middle mouse button click to a .click(fn) event.