Question

I have this Jquery code that is supposed to give me the result of a column if I click on it’s row. I’m using Yii but the problem is mostly with the Jquery.

$(document).on('click', 'td.myLink a', function(){
    $('input[name=\"ECCategory[ParentID]\"]').val($('#mainID').html());

        $('.search-form form').submit();
}); 

This is what I have. What this does is gives me the result of the first row (mainID column) no matter which row I click on. What I want for example is to click on row 5 and get the mainID for row 5.

Answer 1

IDs are unique. So only one element can have the id mainID. You probably want to use $(this) within your click event to search from the selected element. For example:

$(function($){
    $('td.myLink a').click(function(){
        var tr = $(this).parent().parent(); // selected row
        // get columns that you want from selected row using tr.find('...')
        // ...
    }
});