You're right.
The conditional can be modified more simply to $(item).children
("a").hasClass("active").
On Jul 12, 9:02 am, Charlie <charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> active class is on the <a> tag not <li> so example doesn't work
> try this:
> var arr = [ ];
> $(".active").each(function() {
>
> indexLi=$(this).parents(".buttons").children("li").index($(this).parent("li"));
>
> arr.push(indexLi);
> });
> alert(arr);
> Dave Ward wrote:I don't think there's a shortcut in jQuery to do exactly
> that. You could iterate over them and build the array like this though: var
> arr = [ ]; $(".buttons li").each(function(i, item) { if
> ($(item).hasClass("active")) { arr.push(i); } }); On Jul 11, 1:33 pm,
> yo2lux<yo2...@gmail.com>wrote:I have a HTML list: <ul class="buttons">
> <li><a href="#" class="active">Home</a></li> <li><a
> href="#">About</a></li> <li><a href="#" class="active">News</a></li> </ul>
> I want to obtain the index only for the elements with class="active". For
> example I want to create an array with value "0" for Home and "2" for News
> (the indexes). Is possible to do this with jquery? Thanks!
