I have a list like this one:
<li> .... </li>
<li> .... </li>
<li> .... </li>
<li class="active"> .... </li>
<li> .... </li>
I want to find out the index (number in the list) of the item with the “active” class element.
in this case the index would be 4 (or 3 if we’re starting from 0)
How can I do that?
With the .index() :
Working example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/EcZZL/
Edit – added link to the api for
.index()per Nick’s advice