Javascript access TR from TD

I have a table row, and within that, I have a td (whatever it stands for). I would like to change the class attribute of the TR my TD is in without using an ID or a name. Like that:

<tr>
    <td onclick="[TR].setAttribute('class', 'newName')">My TD</td&g开发者_StackOverflow中文版t;
</tr>

How do I do it?

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td stands for table data..

now .. in your case you need the parentNode property of the td ..

<tr>
<td onclick="this.parentNode.setAttribute('class', 'newName')">My TD</td>
</tr>

or as bobince suggested in his comment

<td onclick="this.parentNode.className= 'newName'">My TD</td>

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In jquery, it would be really simple if you have the reference to your td:

$(this).closest('tr');

If you really don't want to take a dependency on jQuery, then you could just do a loop getting the parentNode and checking it's type as a more general purpose solution. In this case you could just get the parentNode since tr is always a direct parent of td. You can do something like this (note this was not tested):

var parent = myTd.parentNode;
while(true) {
  if(parent == null) {
    return;
  }
  if(parent.nodeName === "TR") {
    return parent;
  }
  parent = parent.parentNode;
}

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If you have the dom element in javascript, you can use .parentNode() which will give you the parent node, which should be the table row. Then you can set .className

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If you can use jQuery it could be something like this

$("yourtdselector").closest("tr").attr("class","classname");

For your code

<tr>
    <td onclick="changeClass(this,'classname')">My TD</td>
</tr>

function changeClass(elem, class)
{
    elem.parentNode.className = class;
}

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jQuery is probably the easiest way of doing this, you can use selectors such as:

$('table.mytable tr').addClass('red');

To add a class of 'red' to all tr's in table.mytable. That's just the tip of the iceberg - check it out it should do what you need.

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Without any extra framework:

document.getElementById("theTableName").rows[1].cells[1].className = "someclassname";