how to make a whole row in a table clickable as a link?

I'm using Bootstrap and the following doesn't work:

<tbody>
    <a href="#">
        <tr>
            <td>Blah Blah</td>
            <td>1234567</td>
            <td>£158,000</td>
        </tr>
    </a>
</tbody>

Author's note I:

Please look at other answers below, especially ones that do not use jquery.

Author's note II:

Preserved for posterity but surely the wrong approach in 2020. (Was non idiomatic even back in 2017)

Original Answer

You are using Bootstrap which means you are using jQuery :^), so one way to do it is:

<tbody>
    <tr class='clickable-row' data-href='url://'>
        <td>Blah Blah</td> <td>1234567</td> <td>£158,000</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>


jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    $(".clickable-row").click(function() {
        window.location = $(this).data("href");
    });
});

Of course you don't have to use href or switch locations, you can do whatever you like in the click handler function. Read up on jQuery and how to write handlers;

Advantage of using a class over id is that you can apply the solution to multiple rows:

<tbody>
    <tr class='clickable-row' data-href='url://link-for-first-row/'>
        <td>Blah Blah</td> <td>1234567</td> <td>£158,000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class='clickable-row' data-href='url://some-other-link/'>
        <td>More money</td> <td>1234567</td> <td>£800,000</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>

and your code base doesn't change. The same handler would take care of all the rows.

Another option

You can use Bootstrap jQuery callbacks like this (in a document.ready callback):

$("#container").on('click-row.bs.table', function (e, row, $element) {
    window.location = $element.data('href');
});

This has the advantage of not being reset upon table sorting (which happens with the other option).

Note

Since this was posted window.document.location is obsolete (or deprecated at the very least) use window.location instead.

You can't do that. It is invalid HTML. You can't put a <a> in between a <tbody> and a <tr>. Try this instead:

<tr onclick="window.location='#';">
   ...
</tr>

add style for pointer view

[data-href] { cursor: pointer; }

When you work up to it, you'd want to use JavaScript to assign the click handler outside the HTML.

You could include an anchor inside every <td>, like so:

<tr>
  <td><a href="#">Blah Blah</a></td>
  <td><a href="#">1234567</a></td>
  <td><a href="#">more text</a></td>
</tr>

You could then use display:block; on the anchors to make the full row clickable.

tr:hover { 
   background: red; 
}
td a { 
   display: block; 
   border: 1px solid black;
   padding: 16px; 
}

Example jsFiddle here.

This is probably about as optimum as you're going to get it unless you resort to JavaScript.