On Jun 11, 7:30 pm, "Erik Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jQuery always returns a jQuery object, regardless of whether it finds > anything or not. To see if anything has been selected, use last.length or > last.size() being greater than 0. This is by design so chaining won't break > if nothing is selected: > > $('.someSelector').addClass('highlighted'); > > Will add the class to the selected stuff, if anything is selected. > Otherwise, it doesn't do anything. Ah, of course. That makes lots of sense. Thanks for the tip. T.