JQuery :: Bind Specific Columns Of A Table Row?

How to I bind a click function to specific columns of a table row?

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I currently have this piece of code:

$('#example tr').click( function() {
// selection stuff here, $(this) is the row
});

However, this binds the whole row. As there are checkboxes in the row, I don't want to have the cells containing them bound, too. But, there is a problem: I need to know what row has been clicked on / to what row the cell belongs to. I simply don't get it to work, I tried something like this:

$('#example tbody tr td:lt(7)').live('click', function() {
var nRow = $(this).parent();
});