How to find the array index with a value?

Question

You can use indexOf:

var imageList = [100,200,300,400,500];
var index = imageList.indexOf(200); // 1

You will get -1 if it cannot find a value in the array.

For objects array use map with indexOf:

var imageList = [
   {value: 100},
   {value: 200},
   {value: 300},
   {value: 400},
   {value: 500}
];

var index = imageList.map(function (img) { return img.value; }).indexOf(200);

console.log(index);

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In modern browsers you can use findIndex:

var imageList = [
   {value: 100},
   {value: 200},
   {value: 300},
   {value: 400},
   {value: 500}
];

var index = imageList.findIndex(img => img.value === 200);

console.log(index);

Its part of ES6 and supported by Chrome, FF, Safari and Edge

Use jQuery's function jQuery.inArray

jQuery.inArray( value, array [, fromIndex ] )
(or) $.inArray( value, array [, fromIndex ] )

Here is an another way find value index in complex array in javascript. Hope help somebody indeed. Let us assume we have a JavaScript array as following,

var studentsArray =
     [
    {
    "rollnumber": 1,
    "name": "dj",
    "subject": "physics"
   },
   {
   "rollnumber": 2,
  "name": "tanmay",
  "subject": "biology"
   },
  {
   "rollnumber": 3,
   "name": "amit",
   "subject": "chemistry"
   },
  ];

Now if we have a requirement to select a particular object in the array. Let us assume that we want to find index of student with name Tanmay.

We can do that by iterating through the array and comparing value at the given key.

function functiontofindIndexByKeyValue(arraytosearch, key, valuetosearch) {

    for (var i = 0; i < arraytosearch.length; i++) {

    if (arraytosearch[i][key] == valuetosearch) {
    return i;
    }
    }
    return null;
    }

You can use the function to find index of a particular element as below,

var index = functiontofindIndexByKeyValue(studentsArray, "name", "tanmay");
alert(index);

Use indexOf

imageList.indexOf(200)

how about indexOf ?

alert(imageList.indexOf(200));