html - table row like a link

I made myself a custom jquery function:

Html

<tr data-href="site.com/whatever">

$('tr[data-href]').on("click", function() {
    document.location = $(this).data('href');
});

Easy and perfect for me. Hopefully it helps you.

(I know OP want CSS and HTML only, but consider jQuery)

Agreed with Matt Kantor using data attr. Edited answer above

You have two ways to do this:

Using javascript:

<tr onclick="document.location = 'links.html';">
Using anchors:

<tr><td><a href="">text</a></td><td><a href="">text</a></td></tr>

I made the second work using:

table tr td a {
    display:block;
    height:100%;
    width:100%;
}

To get rid of the dead space between columns:

table tr td {
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0;
}

Here is a simple demo of the second example: DEMO