[jQuery] Re: How to get the element number from a click event

[Karl Swedberg]

You could do something like this:

$('p').click(function() {
        console.log( $('p').index(this) );
});

Or you could use an each() method, which has a built-in index argument:

$('p').each(function(index) {
        $(this).click(function() {
                console.log(index);
        });
});



--Karl

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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com




On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Logictrap wrote:

Is there a simple method  for determining the element number for a
click event?

Using this html code:

<P>Some Text</P>
<P>Some Text</P>
<P>Some Text</P>
<P>Some Text</P>
<P>Some Text</P>

Is there a click event that will tell you the element number of which
<P> was clicked on starting with 0 as the first one?

ie if you clicked on the first element it would tell you "element 0
clicked", if you clicked on the second element it would tell you
"element 1 clicked"

I figured out a way to do this by assigning an id to each <P> but I
was hoping there was a way to not need the id.

Thanks