Question

I need to have a radio button selected when a user clicks anywhere in a table row. I have been toying with some options but cannot get anything to work.

Any help is appreciated.

Here is a sample table:

<table id="tableSelect" class="rowclick" border=1>
<caption align="top">User Management</caption> <thead>
<tr id='head'>
    <th scope="Row">Select</th>
    <th>User Name</th>
    <th>Greeting Name</th>
    <th>Dept</th>
    <th>User Name</th>
    <th>Access Level</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
    <tr id='one'>
        <th scope="col">
            <input name="UserSelected" id="userSelected_1" type="radio" value="1">
        </th>
        <th scope="col"> Richard Rice</th>
        <td>Rick</td>
        <td>IT</td>
        <td>rick</td>
        <td>
            <select class="Role" id="Role" name="userAccessLevel">
                <option value="-2">Access Denied</option>
                <option value="-1">Suspended</option>
                <option value="1">Shipping User</option>
                <option value="2">Administrator</option>
                <option value="3" selected>Super Administrator</option>
                <option value="5">Accounting</option>
                <option value="6">Report Viewer</option>
            </select>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr id='two'>
        <th scope="col">                          
            <input name="UserSelected" id="userSelected_2" type="radio" value="3">
        </th>
        <th scope="col"> Mickey Hockenberry</th>                     
        <td>Mickey</td>
        <td>Purchasing</td>
        <td>mickeyh</td>
        <td>
            <select class="Role"  id="Role" name="userAccessLevel">
                <option value="-2">Access Denied</option>
                <option value="-1">Suspended</option>
                <option value="1">Shipping User</option>
                <option value="2" selected>Administrator</option>
                <option value="3">Super Administrator</option>
                <option value="5">Accounting</option>
                <option value="6">Report Viewer</option>
            </select>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr id='three'>
        <th scope="col">                          
            <input name="UserSelected" id="userSelected_3" type="radio" value="41">                    
        </th>
        <th scope="col"> Michael Lynch</th>
        <td>Mike</td>
        <td>Shipping</td>
        <td>mjl</td>
        <td>
            <select class="Role"  id="Role" name="userAccessLevel">
                <option value="-2">Access Denied</option>
                <option value="-1">Suspended</option>
                <option value="1">Shipping User</option>
                <option value="2" selected>Administrator</option>
                <option value="3">Super Administrator</option>
                <option value="5">Accounting</option>
                <option value="6">Report Viewer</option>
            </select>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>

Answer 1

Use this:

$('#tableSelect tr').click(function() {
    $(this).find('th input:radio').prop('checked', true);
})

Here’s a working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/mrchief/eFnL7/1/

Edit: For better (by how much??) performance, use input[type=radio] selector : http://jsfiddle.net/mrchief/eFnL7/2/