Question

i have the following html output of a tool thats i’m developing:

<button>a</button>
<script>$('what to wrtie here to select the previous button element?').click(function(){alert ('a clicked !');});</script>
<button>b</button>
<script>$('same here').click(function(){alert ('b clicked !');});</script>

i need the selector in each script tag to select the previous element.
using id selector cant be applied since the tool don’t generate ids for elements.

thanks.

ANSWER:

$('script').last().prev().click(...

as Niklas said the current executed script is the last one in the list

Answer 1

This is not possible without an id or some other kind of reference to either the button object or the script tag itself.

It’s not possible to do because the script is not executed from where its element is located in the DOM. Instead it’s executed with reference to the whole window.

Actually, there’s a pretty good answer here: How may I reference the script tag that loaded the currently-executing script?

In short, the currently running script is the last element in the list.