it may be sleep deprivation, but I can not understand why this does not work. I want onclick to return the value I from the for loop that created this element and apply an event handler. Put it in close and it still rotates the maximum number of iterator.
window.onload = function(){
var arbitrary_amount = 100;
var the_list = document.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
for(var i = 0; i < arbitrary_amount; i++){
var natural_index = i + 1;
var list_item = document.createElement('li');
var inner_link = document.createElement('a');
inner_link.setAttribute('href', '#');
inner_link.innerHTML = "Link "+natural_index;
inner_link.onclick = function(){
return function(link_num){
alert('You clicked link '+link_num);
}(i);
};
list_item.appendChild(inner_link);
the_list.appendChild(list_item);
}
};
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