Thanks Mike. Have to admit to a fatal flaw in my logic (that a nothing select
would return nothing), but I'm still *extremely* impressed with JQuery (just
not with myself)
malsup wrote:
>
>> $(document).ready(function() {
>> if (!$("#save-search div.error-message")) $("#save-search").hide();
>> });
>>
>> Would it be possible to let me know not just how to get this to work, but
>> also where I'm going wrong?
>
>
> Your test will never fail because $(..) always returns an object which
> does not resolve to false (even if it contains zero dom nodes). You
> could rework it like this:
>
> if (!$("#save-search div.error-message")[0]) {
> // do stuff
> }
>
> This expression will test the first element in the jQuery object, and
> that will resolve to false if nothing was selected.
>
> Mike
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