Question

I’m currently trying to call a function with a custom parameter, however I’m unable to access the parameter, and I get back an observable() object instead. Basically what I’m trying to do is to retrieve the index of that specific element in the list. Could someone point me in the right direction on how I could do so?

HTML:

<div id="formula">
  <b>Formula</b><br/>
    <!-- ko foreach: formula -->
      <span data-bind="text: $data, attr: {name: $index}, click: $parent.convert.bind($data,$index)"></span><br/>
    <!-- /ko -->
</div>

Javascript:

var ListModel = function(formula) {
  var self = this;
  self.formula = ko.observableArray(formula);
  self.convert = function(index) {
    alert(index); //this should show the index of the clicked element
  }
};

listModel = new ListModel(formula);
ko.applyBindings(listModel);

Answer 1

Should be $parent.convert.bind($data,$index())

<div id="formula">
  <b>Formula</b><br/>
    <!-- ko foreach: formula -->
      <span data-bind="text: $data, attr: {name: $index}, click: $parent.convert.bind($data,$index())"></span><br/>
    <!-- /ko -->
</div>

Example