jQuery - OnClick, change background color for table cells

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Published on 2010-12-28T01:33:07Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 1:54 UTC
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Hi all,

Let me show you a demo: here

it is working for only rows. its not working for cells. i want to change cells' (tds') background colors with mouse clicks.

For example: a have a table, and it has 4 tds. table's background color is white. if i click to a td, a td should be red, than if i click to b, b td should be red and a td should be white again. if i click to c than, c should be red and b should be white right now.

A - B

C - D

Can anyone help me?

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