There isn't much you can do with that since you can't conditionally code in ".show" or ".hide" unless you made a plugin to pass in a true/ false parameter and decide in the plugin, for instance
$("#no_defs").conditionalShow($('.def').length == 0); On Apr 16, 4:27 pm, Dragon-Fly999 <dragon-fly...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Could someone tell me how to shorten the following code? Thanks. > > if ($('.def').length == 0) { > $('#no-defs').show(); > } > else { > $('#no-defs').hide(); > }