You can short it to:
$(function() {
var divcount = $("div").length;
alert("start=" + divcount);
});
On Jan 19, 4:55 am, Karl Rudd <karl.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
