knockout.js – Get ViewModel from DOM element

Knockout has two utility methods that might help here.

• ko.dataFor will return the ViewModel that the element is bound to.

• ko.contextFor returns the “binding context” of the current element. The object you get back from this method will return something like:

  { 
      $data: ...,
      $parents,
      $root
  }
  

So if I understand your question, you can probably use ko.dataFor here. Here’s a simple example using dataFor.