Click the button to get the index of the element with id="favorite", relative to the jQuery selector (class="hot").
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("button").click(function(){ document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = $(".hot").index($("#favorite")); });/* www . j a v a2 s. com*/ }); </script> </head> <body> <button>Get index</button> <p id="demo"></p> <ul> <li>HTML</li> <li class="hot">CSS</li> <li class="hot" id="favorite">Javascript</li> </ul> </body> </html>