having javascript call a specific value

[printline]

Hello

I'm a bit new to javascript. Hope somebody can help me

I have a table with 7 colums and 5 rows. 1 row and 1 column has headlines. In the table i have cells with different numbers in them. When i mark a headline row and a headline column a specific celle is highlighted.

What i need is a javascript that shows the user, in text, the value of the cell he has highlighted. Ex: "you have selected column 3, row 4, which has the value xxx".

Perhaps this can be doe be giving each cell a unique id, or something....

Please help......

Thank you!

[iam_clint]

you can probably piece this togethor by using my example code at the top of the javascript forum for reading cells like excel.

[printline]

To some extend useful, yes...... Could you perhaps tell me how to make the content in the cells work like a link, so that when you click it, it shows the value in the text field.....?

[iam_clint]

you would add an onclick to display it
[CODE=javascript]
<div id="example"></div>
<table>
<tr><td onclick="docume nt.getElementBy Id('example').i nnerHTML = this.innerHTML" style="cursor: pointer;"></td></tr>
</table>
[/CODE]

[printline]

Works great, thank you very much!

One little extra thing though you perhaps could help me with.

If i would like there to be a text in front of the content, when clicking it, how would i do that?

Ex. The cell contains the number 100. When clicked, the number appears somewhere else and in front of it, it says, "You have selected 100"

[iam_clint]

I guess I really don't see what you mean?

Say that again in a different way.

[printline]

Okay, let me try explaining it again, a bit more in details.

The first script you gave me, you put in a div tag, where the content of the cell should be displayed, when clicking the cell.

in that div tag, i would like there to be some additional text, but only to appear when clicking the contant of the cell.

Let's say the content in the cell says 100 $. When clicking the cell, the div tag should read: "You have selected 100 $".

The "You have selected" part is not visible unless you click the contant of the cell.

Hope this explains it better.....

[iam_clint]

[CODE=javascript]
<div id="example"></div>
<table>
<tr><td onclick="docume nt.getElementBy Id('example').i nnerHTML = 'You have selected ' + this.innerHTML" style="cursor: pointer;"></td></tr>
</table>
[/CODE]

this should work for ya.

[printline]

Brilliant!!!

Thanks very much....