Binding to a click on a link, instead of a form field value

Question

I output a query, and when the user selects a row, I display details of that row in a cfdiv.  This works fine as long as I use a form and display a radio button next to each row -- when the user clicks a radio button, its value is sent to the bind expression, and all is well.  Here is the code:
1   <cfdiv bind="url:dspThread.cfm?threadID={threadID}" ID="theDiv"/>
2   <form action="updateMessageStatus.cfm" method="post" name="myForm">
3       <cfoutput query="qryMessages">
4           <input type="radio" name="threadID" value="#qryMessages.threadID#">
5           #qryMessages.subject#
6       </cfoutput>
7   </form>
But this isn't very intuitive for the user.  I would like to eliminate the radio button and have the user click a link (in this case, the message subject), and this click would trigger the <cfdiv> to refresh.  I tried replacing line 5 above with the following, but it doesn't seem to work:
<a href="##" onClick="myForm.threadID.value='#qryMessages.threadID#';">#qryMessages.subject#</a>
Any solutions?  Thanks.
Pete

Answer 1

That worked for the most part! :) Thank you! For some reason though...when I received the notification in my email that my answer on this forum had been answered, I clicked on the link to "mark this issue as solved" and while my browser took me to this page...it also opened my homepage in the sidebar? After I had already told it not to open in the sidebar?