I have this test code. My alert dialog always show zero as the div count:
Help !!!!!!! <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en-AU"> <head> <title>Jquery Test</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var divcount = $("div").length; alert("start=" + divcount); </script> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <div id="div2">asdf</div> <div id="div2">asdf</div> </div> </body> </html>