jQuery.index cannot index the jQuery object

[ericsk]

While using jQuery.index like this:

  ...
  var target = $(e.target);
  var target_index = $('.item').index(target);
  ...

it always returns -1 (i.e. NOT FOUND).

I suggest to apply the patch in the attachment to core.js (revision 5375).

[ericsk]

the patch file of core.js

[scott.gonzalez]

If this concept is approved, this would probably be better:

elem = elem[0] || elem;

[flesler]

Disagree...

If you accept collections then they can have more than one element, that means that you get the index of the first item found from the collection.

If this is just a shortcut for $().index( target[0] ); then just do that in your code, not internally.

[joern]

The shortcut would indeed be helpful as it would improve API consistancy quite a bit. Most other jQuery methods that accept an selector work with a string (css etc. selector) and a single or an array of dom elements. I don't know how many times I tried to use index() expecting that it would use just the first element of my jQuery object, but it happended often. Instead it just returns not-found...

[flesler]

I crafted a modified version of .index() that supports collections, even with many elements. While doing this, I discovered that on IE, window == document, so this could yield some unexpected results when both are in a collection. I also added a return false, so that when the first index is found, it stops looping.

Here I attach the diff, if you want to discuss/test/benchmark it, be my guest. Let me know when I can commit this.

[flesler]

Passes all the tests, on all browsers.

[flesler]

Applied at [5500], changed the diff a bit, the === is applied to $.inArray, and this function is used in $.fn.index. If a jQuery object is received, only the first element is used.

[flesler]

Added 2 tests at [5505].