you don't have to do that check. If the element does not exist, the show() code will not be run.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:40 AM, shobhitsoftskills <shobhitsing...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > i am learning jQuery and confused about one thing.below is simple code > using jQuery. > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > <html> > > <head> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > $(document).ready(function() { > if ( $('#myDiv').length ) > $('#myDiv').show(); > > }); > </script> > > </head> > > <body> > <div id="myDiv">Search Engines</div> > </body> > > </html> > > > > > > i am trying below lines. > > if ( $('#myDiv').length ) > $('#myDiv').show(); > > according to this code if element exists then element should be show > but i did not look any thing. > > kindly post your thoughts. >
