Get parent index with jQuery [duplicate]

Question

<ul class="bullets">
  <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">item 4</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">item 5</a></li>
</ul>

When I click on the <a> element, i'd like to get it's parent <li>'s index number.

I'm trying to create a carrousel type function that doesn't need item-n classes on the list items.

$(".bullets li a").click(function(){

   var myIndex = $(this).parent().index(this);
   showPic(myIndex);

});

Thanks for any help.

TD.

Answer 1

$(this).parent().index();

short and sweet

Correction : this is not short and sweet

from where this comes it should be like:

$(".bullets li a").click(function(){
    var myIndex = $(this).parent().index();
    console.log(myIndex);
    showPic(myIndex);
});

Answer 2

$(".bullets li a").click(function(){

   var myIndex = $(this).parent().prevAll().length;
   showPic(myIndex);

});

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Note: prevAll().length will give you a zero-based index; the first item will be 0 (zero).