Question

I have this function that turns cells with class editable (td.editable) to input fields. Now, you have to pass the row to the function. For example: editRow(myRow).

So using this.parentNode.id, I get the id of the row. But when I pass the value as a parameter to the editRow function, it does nothing.

I think the function thinks that rowId is the actual name of the row, instead of using the contents of the rowId variable as the name of the row.

function editRow(row) {
 $('td.editable',row).each(function() {
  $(this).html('<input type="text" value="' + $(this).html() + '" size="10" />');
 });
}    

/* click on cell with .editable class */
 $(".editable").click(function() {
   rowId = this.parentNode.id;
   editRow(rowId);
});

Answer 1

editRow doesn’t take a row id, it takes an entire row (the DOM Element itself). You’re simply passing the wrong data. Try:

$('.editable').click(function(){
    editRow(this.parentNode);
});