Megalist

Declarative Markup

This list has 50 items as <LI> elements, created by declarative inline HTML markup:

item 0
item 1
item 2
item 3
item 4
item 5
item 6
item 7
item 8
item 9
item 10
item 11
item 12
item 13
item 14
item 15
item 16
item 17
item 18
item 19
item 20
item 21
item 22
item 23
item 24
item 25
item 26
item 27
item 28
item 29
item 30
item 31
item 32
item 33
item 34
item 35
item 36
item 37
item 38
item 39
item 40
item 41
item 42
item 43
item 44
item 45
item 46
item 47
item 48
item 49

First create the HTML Structure, then instantiate the list via javascript, and add an event handler:

Markup

<div class="megalist" id="myList" >
<ul>
    <li>item 0</li> <li>item 1</li> <li>item 2</li> <li>item 3</li> <li>item 4</li> <li>item 5</li> <li>item 6</li> <li>item 7</li> <li>item 8</li> <li>item 9</li> 
</ul>
</div>

Script

$('#myList').megalist()
    $('#myList').on('change', function(event){ 
    var message = "selected index: "+event.selectedIndex+"\n"+ 
                  "selected item: "+event.srcElement.get()[0].outerHTML;
    alert( message ); 
})