On Jul 9, 10:19 am, Felix Geisendörfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just been wondering if jQuery has some syntactic sugar for checking
> if an element exists. I know the following works:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> if ($('#my-element').length) {
> // #my-element exists}
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> but is there also something similar to the following?:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> if ($('#my-element').exists()) {
> // #my-element exists}
Don't get me wrong -- I *really* like and appreciate jQuery. But there
is value
in knowing the DOM API. For a simple test like this one: "does an
element with
this ID exist?", I'd simply say:
if (document.getElementById('my-element')) {
// and so on
}
--
hj
