This worked. Thank you!
On Feb 19, 5:27 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote: > Try: > $('li', this).length; > > On Feb 19, 3:14 pm, Tim <tim.myer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So I have a main list of states in an unordered list and then a > > unordered list of cities within each of those. So I wanted to count > > the number of cities per state. > > <ul class="state_list"> > > <li> > > <h2>Alabama</h2> > > <ul> > > <li><a href="http://www.google.com">Alabama State</a></li> > > <li><a href="http://www.google.com">Alabama State</a></li> > > <li><a href="http://www.google.com">Alabama State</a></li> > > <li><a href="http://www.google.com">Alabama State</a></li> > > </ul> > > </li> > > </ul> > > > $('.state_list > li').each(function(i){ > > $(this+ '> li').count(); > > }); > > > It will let me put anything inside of the each function except for > > counting or length, when I do that it blows up the whole site without > > any errors..