hj wrote:
On Jul 9, 10:19 am, Felix Geisendörfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I've just been wondering if jQuery has some syntactic sugar for checking if an element exists. I know the following works: -------------------------------------------------------- if ($('#my-element').length) { // #my-element exists} -------------------------------------------------------- but is there also something similar to the following?: -------------------------------------------------------- if ($('#my-element').exists()) { // #my-element exists}Don't get me wrong -- I *really* like and appreciate jQuery. But there is value in knowing the DOM API. For a simple test like this one: "does an element with this ID exist?", I'd simply say: if (document.getElementById('my-element')) { // and so on }
Of course you can do it like that, but the question in this thread wether jQuery should supply a convenience method for such a task...
--Klaus
