jQuery, how to trigger an href click on when a parent row is clicked

Question

I have a table and in each row is an an anchor element. How would I go about triggering the click of the href if the parent row is clicked anywhere in the row?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean a table row, the you would add a click handler to the row that simply clicked the child a tag:

$("tr").click(function() {
    $(this).children("td > a").click();
    return false; // Prevent event propagation and infinite loops
});

EDIT: Thanks to Tatu for reminding me about event propagation