Excellent,  this is great, thank you for the demo.  I didnt know 
parentElement existed, now that I do, I can go back and change some of the 
other messy coding I did.

Thanks again...Peter


> Oops. The onclick event should read
>    onclick="btnHandler(this);"
> 
> 
> Try
> 
> function btnHandler(o) {
> 		alert("You clicked the button in row" + 
> (o.parentElement.parentElement.rowIndex + 1));
> 	}
> 
>