One form of "graceful" degradation that we're considering is to have a single <td><a href="">Content</a></td> on each row that users can click when JavaScript i

One form of "graceful" degradation that we're considering is to have a single <td><a href="">Content</a></td> on each row that users can click when JavaScript is disabled. Users with JS get <tr data-href=""><td><a href="">Content</a></td></tr>, with JS doing as in your example. The downside is that we'd have to repeat ourselves, but at least the system will degrade somewhat-gracefully.