Question

I think this should be simple but I haven’t been able to figure it out:

I have a container with a couple of children:

<div id='container'>
  <div id='one'>some</div>
  <div id='two'>random</div>
  <div id='three'>text</div>
</div>

I want to be able to know the position of say element $(‘#two’)… which should return 2 (as the element is the second of the container’s children, $(‘#one’)…. should return 1 and so on.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Martin

Answer 1

You can use jQuery.index for this:

$('#two').index() // 1

Note that the index is zero-based.