Click on HTML table and get row number (with Javascript, not jQuery)

Question

I would like to know how to click on a button in an HTML table and get the row and column number returned to me: For example, with the following table:

Answer 1

Try this:

function  getId(element) {
    alert("row" + element.parentNode.parentNode.rowIndex + 
    " - column" + element.parentNode.cellIndex);
}