> One of the great things about jQuery, however, is the basic concept.
> If it doesn't find the element it doesn't do anything so there is no
> need for conditional logic ;)
That's really great, thanks for making it clear for me...jQuery is
goodness, the more I know it, the more I love it :)
Bohdan
On May 29, 9:32 pm, Daemach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can use a selector such as $('#myElem') to get an element by ID. $
> ('#myElem').size() gives you the size of the matched set - you can use
> that in an if statement if you want.
>
> One of the great things about jQuery, however, is the basic concept.
> If it doesn't find the element it doesn't do anything so there is no
> need for conditional logic ;)
>
> On May 29, 12:22 pm, besh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > before jQuery, I was used to check for existence of certain elements
> > like this:
>
> > if (!document.getElementById('myElem')) {
> > return false;
>
> > } else {
> > doSomething();
> > }
>
> > Is there some jQuery way of doing this, or should I use the old DOM
> > one?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Bohdan
