Hi,
Is there a way to stop the whole row in a gridfield to link to the edit page and have only the edit button link to the edit page?
i have a file link in the row and if you click on it it will open the pdf but also the edit page.

Thanks

Hi, you need to comment some lines in javascript.
You can find it here: framework/javascript/GridField.js
Find this code at line 116:

$('.ss-gridfield .ss-gridfield-item').entwine({
onclick: function(e) {
				if($(e.target).closest('.action').length) {
					this._super(e);
					return false;
				}

				var editLink = this.find('.edit-link');
				if(editLink.length) this.getGridField().showDetailView(editLink.prop('href'));
			},
			onmouseover: function() {
				if(this.find('.edit-link').length) this.css('cursor', 'pointer');
			},
			onmouseout: function() {
				this.css('cursor', 'default');
			}
		});

And change code to:

$('.ss-gridfield .ss-gridfield-item').entwine({
			/*onclick: function(e) {
				if($(e.target).closest('.action').length) {
					this._super(e);
					return false;
				}

				var editLink = this.find('.edit-link');
				if(editLink.length) this.getGridField().showDetailView(editLink.prop('href'));
			},*/
			onmouseover: function() {
				if(this.find('.edit-link').length) this.css('cursor', 'pointer');
			},
			onmouseout: function() {
				this.css('cursor', 'default');
			}
		});

Now, when you click on row, nothing will happen. Only then you click edit icon you wil be redirected to edit window.

A bit late, but just in case someone needs this:

I needed to insert a target="_blank" custom link to a pdf file into the GridField rows, which worked well, but in the background ModelAdmin still went on to display the DetailForm. Triggered by the Johnny9 answer above, I did this:

config.yml

LeftAndMain:
  extra_requirements_javascript:
    - mymodule/javascript/myfile.js

mymodule/javascript/myfile.js

(function($){
	$.entwine('ss', function($) {
		$('.ss-gridfield  .ss-gridfield-item .showPDFLink').entwine({
			onclick: function(e) {
				e.stopPropagation();
			}
		});
	});
})(jQuery);

where showPDFLink is the class of the custom link