How to get current element in getElementsByClassName

Question

Consider a simple JS event of

document.getElementsByClassName(\'test\')[0].onclick=function(){
document.getElementsByClassName(\'test\')[0].innerHTML = \'New          


        

Answer 1

Just iterate over them:

var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('test');

for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
    elements[i].addEventListener('click', (function(i) {
        return function() {
            this.innerHTML = 'New Text';
        };
    })(i), false);
}​

I used (function(i) { return function() { ... }; })(i) instead of just function() { ... } because if you happen to use i in the callback, the value of i will be elements.length - 1 by the time you call it. To fix it, you must shadow i and make it essentially pass by value.