Polymer 1.0+ itemForElement example

Oct 18, 2015

In Polymer sometimes you need to access the data item bound to a DOM element inside a dom-repeat template. A common use case is when the user interacts with the element (like click/hover) and you need to display additional properties of the element.

The way to do that is using the dom-repeat template method itemForElement.

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Notes:

• Remember that the itemForElement method belongs to the dom-repeat template
• If you need to use itemForElement for initialisation, make sure the template contents are already in the DOM. You can use the “dom-change” event that the template fires when it has updated the DOM.