I'd personally create the arrays and do the indexOf in this scenario.
But there's a chance the actual use case could call for storing the answers with the questions then simply retrieving the element using el.store and el.retrieve.
On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:04 PM, אריה גלזר wrote:
http://mootools.net/shell/K55zK/3/ this in an event always points to the element. knowing that, here are 2 solutions for this that i can think of: 1. creating a questions array and using indexOf 2. using getNext() to fetch the nearest answer both are shown in the example above. ----------- אריה גלזר 052-5348-561 5561 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 22:41, cbolson <[email protected]> wrote: Is it possible to get the index of the element (eg) clicked when using event delegation? Here is my example code: var comments=$$('.answer').hide(); document.id('faq').addEvent('click:relay(.question)', function(){ // how to get the "index" of the item clicked so that this next line will work? comments[index].show(); }); Code in mooshell: http://mootools.net/shell/kss2C/ Thanks in advance for any suggestions, I am probably missing something obvious :( Chris
