Javascript get element index position in DOM array by class or id

Question

My situation

var domElements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');

Now I want to return the array item key - position of the element in the array - ( for example domElements[34]) searching in the array for the element with id="asd".

How can I achieve this?

What if instead of ID I want to search trough class="asd hey" ?

Any help appreciated, thank you!

NB: Not in jquery, I need it in pure javascript in this case

Solution 1

Try like this

var matches = document.querySelectorAll("#asd");

If you want to search by class

var matches = document.querySelectorAll(".asd");

If you want an index of your code

try like this

var domElements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');

for(var i=0;i<domElements.length;i++){
   if(domElements[i].id==="asd"){
      // search by id 
      // index i 
   }
   if(domElements[i].className==="asd"){
      // search by class 
      // index i 
   }
}

Edit

There another way you can find index

try like this

var domElements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');
var domList= Array.prototype.slice.call(document.body.getElementsByTagName('*'));
var itemList = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(".asd"));
console.log(domList.indexOf(itemList[0])) // if you wanna find one index

//if you wanna search all index of class 

for(var i=0;i<itemList.length;i++)
  console.log(domList.indexOf(itemList[i]))

Solution 2

I think you are asking this:

var li = document.querySelectorAll("li");
function cutlistitem(lielm) {
lielm.addEventListener("click", function () {
    lielm.classList.toggle("done")
})
};
li.forEach(cutlistitem);

I was creating a todo list app in which I created an unordered list of tasks to be done, in that <ul> every task was in an <li>. Now what I wanted is: to add an event listener to every li element for which I needed to grab every element of li list. I ran a forEach loop on every element of li list and added an event listener to each of the element. To get and index of the element you can use indexOf method.

Solution 3

Not literal code but if you iterate over the dom elements

for (var i = 0; i < parentElement.children.length; i++) {
    var item = parentElement.children[i];
    if (item.getAttribute('id') === 'asd') {
        return i;
    }
}

This has the assumption that instead of selecting ALL DOM elements, you simply select the parentElement of your list of elements - this approach is more logical and certainly a lot more efficient.