Question

I am using .index() to get the position of the element. So by default it returns 0 for first one. Is there is a way to set default to 1 so the returned index would be 1,2,3… instead of 0,1,2…?

<div class="tabs">
    <a href="">1</a>
    <a href="">2</a>
    <a href="">3</a>
</div>

and the jQuery:

$(function(){
    $('.tabs a').click(function(e){
        var index = $('.tabs a').index(this);
        console.log(index);
        e.preventDefault();
    });
});

Answer 1

You can’t change the default, but you could add it manually

var index = $('.tabs a').index(this) + 1;

If that’s not good enough, you could create a plugin that would return the value you want.

(function($){
    $.fn.myIndex = function(x) {
        return $(this).index(x) + 1;
    };
})(jQuery);

So you can then use .myIndex and get jQuery’s index with 1 added to it.

Live example