knockoutjs(01) how to bind isSelected

<ul data-bind="foreach: items">
    <li data-bind="css: { selected: isSelected }">
        <a href="#" data-bind="text: name, click: $root.selectedItem"></a>
    </li>
</ul>

<hr/>

<div data-bind="text: ko.toJSON($root)"></div>

var Item = function(name, parent) {
   this.name = ko.observable(name);  
   this.isSelected = ko.computed(function() {
       return this === parent.selectedItem();        
   }, this);
};

var ViewModel = function() {
   this.selectedItem = ko.observable();
   this.items = ko.observableArray([
       new Item("one", this),
       new Item("two", this),
       new Item("three", this)
       ]);
};

    
ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel());

.selected { background-color: #ccc; }

Sample here: http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/BuH7N/

If all you care about is the selected status, then you can tweak it to pass a reference to theselectedItem observable to the child constructor like: http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/R5MtC/

If your parent view model is stored in a global variable, then you could consider not passing it to the child and using it directly like: http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/3drUL/. I prefer to pass the reference to the child though.

ttp://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/R5MtC/