The code is being run before the DIVs actually exist. You need to
"wrap" the code in a "ready" event handler, like so:
$(document).ready( function() {
var divcount = $("div").length;
alert("start=" + divcount);
});
Now the code will be run when the document (the HTML not images, etc)
has finished loading and is "ready".
More info about the "ready" function/event here:
http://docs.jquery.com/Events/ready#fn
Karl Rudd
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM, bartee <bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have this test code. My alert dialog always show zero as the div
> count:
>
> Help !!!!!!!
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en-AU">
> <head>
> <title>Jquery Test</title>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var divcount = $("div").length;
> alert("start=" + divcount);
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <div id="content">
> <div id="div2">asdf</div>
> <div id="div2">asdf</div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>
