Can I have a Master/Detail page without a repeating region for the Master links?

Question

Hi there.
I have been trying to find the solution to this for hours, but with no luck at all.
I have a master/detail page that uses an HTML dataset.  It's pulling content from DIV tags within the same page, using 2 colums ("topic" and "description") and is working properly using this code:
<ul spry:region="ds1" spry:repeatchildren="ds1">
<li class="product" spry:setrow="ds1" spry:select="selected" spry:hover="hover">{topic}</li>
</ul>
What I'd really like to do though, is have some individual images serve as the {topic} links instead of having the {topic} listing built dynamically using the repeatchildren. So, basically, I'd like to hard-code the topics using images, and when you click on it, it then loads the specific {description} content.
But as soon as i remove the repeatchildren, and hard-code the <li>'s, it doesn't load the description. It does do the spry:select and spry:hover part, but it just doesn't change the detail region content. I even tried various "onclick"s such as setCurrentRow(2), and that doesn't work either.
Any advice you can give me I really appreciate!
Below is my code:
var ds1 = new Spry.Data.HTMLDataSet(null, "sourceContainer", {rowSelector: "div.topic", dataSelector: "div.QandA", columnNames:["topic", "description"]});
<table width="90%" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="21%" valign="top">
        <div spry:region="ds1">
<ul>
                 <li onclick="ds1.setCurrentRow(0);" spry:setrow="ds1" spry:select="selected" spry:hover="hover">[an image goes here]</li>
                <li onclick="ds1.setCurrentRow(1);" spry:setrow="ds1" spry:select="selected" spry:hover="hover">[an image goes here]</li>
                <li onclick="ds1.setCurrentRow(2);" spry:setrow="ds1" spry:select="selected" spry:hover="hover">[an image goes here]</li>
</ul>
            </div>
</td>
  <td width="79%" valign="top">  
  <div spry:detailregion="ds1">
  <div>{description}</div>
  </div>
  </td>
  </tr>
</table>         

Answer 1

Your onclick and setrows are conflicting. (they do the same thing....)
Get rid of the spry:setrow attributes and it should work fine.
Hope this helps,
Don