Weird value for counter variable in javascript [duplicate] - javascript

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For some reason I get "6" inside my function here for every div element:
for(var i = 1; i <= 5; i++){
$('<div class="e-' + i + '"></div>').appendTo(something).click(function(){
alert(i); // <-- it's 6. wtf??
});
}
instead of 1, 2, 3, etc.
The class on the other hand it appears to be correctly set..
What am I doing wrong?

Your for loop is being executed at page load time. The alert only fires when there's a click event which is happening after the for loop has finished. Hence the value of i is now 6.
1) Page loads, for loop does its stuff...
2) Sometime later a click event is fired. the value of i at this time is 6 because the forloop has already completed.

The problem is that you need to create a closure to capture the value of i at the time you bind the click function.
Try this:
for(var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
{
$('<div class="e-' + i + '"></div>')
.appendTo(something)
.click(function(value)
{
return function() { alert(value) };
}(i));
}

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I am adding some JS to an HTML, and I have a fragment of code similar to this:
<script>
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}
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The idea can be summarized like this:
There is a series of buttons in the page, stored in buttons[].
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To do said actions, I need the button[x].id. In fact, the initial intention was to set the listener to:
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I have a question which might sound silly. In the code below there are 2 console.log(i) statements. I want to know why does the second console.log(i) statement returns value of 2 and not 1 as the former on the first iteration (i.e. 1st statement i=n, 2nd: i=n+1). Shouldn't both be equal to 1 until the end of the loop?
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This is a bit of a mystery for me. I have two functions:
1)
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I'm trying to loop through 12 classes, named .video-link0 through video-link11, where each one gets the treatment:
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$('.video-link[n]').addClass('show');
});
Essentially, I want the following behavior:
When .video-link1 is clicked, addClass('show') to video-link1
When .video-link2 is clicked, addClass('show') to video-link2
and so on, as if I had 12 functions that looked like this:
$('.video-link1').click(function() {
$('.video-link1').addClass('show');
});
$('.video-link2').click(function() {
$('.video-link2').addClass('show');
});
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I want to write a single loop that replaces the need to write this out as 12 separate cases.
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** UPDATE **
This is not a duplicate question, or else the above question referenced does not address my requirement. I am not trying to move up and down the DOM with next. Rather, I want to write a single loop that iterates through 12 classes numbered 0-11 using i to enumerate the cases.
** UPDATE **
This works for me, and is using a suggestion by Lloyd Banks (I needed the i enumerator PLUS the this keyword):
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$(this).addClass('show');
});
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$(this).addClass('show');
});
You can use $(this) to reference the current (targeted) element inside of a event callback:
$('.video-link').click(function() {
$(this).addClass('show');
});
You can use
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for(var i = 1; i <= numberOfElements; i++){
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$(this).addClass('show');
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}
}
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