JavaScript DOM: Find Element Index In Container

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You could make usage of Array.prototype.indexOf. For that, we need to somewhat “cast” the HTMLNodeCollection into a true Array. For instance:

var nodes = Array.prototype.slice.call( document.getElementById('list').children );

Then we could just call:

nodes.indexOf( liNodeReference );

Example:

var nodes = Array.prototype.slice.call( document.getElementById('list').children ),
    liRef = document.getElementsByClassName('match')[0];

console.log( nodes.indexOf( liRef ) );
<ul id="list">
    <li>foo</li>
    <li class="match">bar</li>
    <li>baz</li>    
</ul>

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