Count elements before an element

Question

here is an example : ```

<-- im in this class : I want to know how many div with class "create-q" there is before this one. (3 in this example)

``` I know how to count but not how to stop it once it reach a specified div.. How can I do this with jQuery ?

Accepted Answer

If `mydiv` is a reference to the element you're already looking at:

```
var n = $(mydiv).index('.create-q');
```

will give the index of that div which as they're zero-based also happens to be the number of preceding divs.

Unlike `.prevAll()` this will work regardless of whether the divs have a common parent or not.

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