is there a way to open a popup when CLICKING on a html5 table CELL?

I have a html5 table and am wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction when it comes to opening a popup when the user clicks on the CELL inside of the table? I already understand that I will have to use js/jq – so I went and got the recent release of JQ and inside of my table, attached to the cell I am using this: <td><a href="details.html"></a></td> – but nothing happens 🙁

I want to be able to present a popup form when the user clicks on a single cell within a html5 table. I have tried to embed href tag to the cell, I have tried making each cell (contenteditable) – but that just allows me to type into the cell directly and this is not what I want to do. I need them to type into the FORM that will open when clicking on the cell.