This is a super specific use case, but if you have an HTML element and you want it to be more "self-aware", you can do:
let element = document.getElementById('whatever');
// To get an array of siblings
[...element.parentElement.children]
// To get current index of self
[...element.parentElement.children].indexOf(element)
What we're doing here is:
- Getting our HTML element
- Getting the parent of our HTML element
- Getting the children of the parent
- Spreading it into an array (because it's an
HTMLCollection
otherwise, you can also useArray.from
) - Getting the index of our element amongst all of its siblings
I figured this out after working on a framework-less project, where I wanted an HTML <button>
to be able to tell the function it called its own index.
Example HTML:
<div>
<button onclick="whoami(event)">Some button</button>
<button onclick="whoami(event)">Some other button</button>
<button onclick="whoami(event)">And other button</button>
</div>
And the corresponding example JavaScript:
function whoami(event) {
let element = event.currentTarget;
let currentButtonIndex = [...element.parentElement.children].indexOf(element);
// ...and so on
}
Anyway, I thought this was cool, hope it's useful for you!
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