Click on different rows to alert their index position:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> table, td { border: 1px solid black; } </style>/*from w ww .j a v a2 s .c om*/ </head> <body> <p id="demo"></p> <p>Click on each tr element to alert its index position in the table:</p> <table> <tr onclick="myFunction(this)"> <td>Click to show rowIndex</td> </tr> <tr onclick="myFunction(this)"> <td>Click to show rowIndex</td> </tr> <tr onclick="myFunction(this)"> <td>Click to show rowIndex</td> </tr> </table> <script> function myFunction(x) { document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "Row index is: " + x.rowIndex; } </script> </body> </html>
The rowIndex property returns the position of a row in the rows collection of a table.