The trick comes with the whole “click anywhere on the entry” bit. In reality, we only want that to be “mostly true” – in this case clicking on the checkbox or PDF icon (in the upper right) should lead to different actions.

Anyway, the bit that was new to me was stopping a click on the checkbox (for example) from also taking you to the detail page (since it is afterall, a click “anywhere on the entry”).

click the checkbox here and receive two alerts:

click here and see only the one you want (‘checkbox’):

… and if it doesn’t work. Make sure you know how to spell “propagation” (not that that happened to anyone I know).

some more here

Update 10/27/08: Another helpful link on event handling.