Hi There, If I am not mistaken, 'contains' is a selector not a method.
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/contains You could try with the following: $("span.total:contains('1)").parent().hide(); OR, if you decide to place it in If-else block, then do the following: if ($("span.total:contains('1')").length > 0 ) { $('div.header').hide(); } // $("span.total:contains('1')") matches all elements containing '1', so would you have to use length to check the number of matched element is more than 0 Hope it helps, Thanks, Abdullah. On Apr 4, 2:10 am, marprus <marcel.pru...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have html generated by php (several html codes like below): > > <div class="header"> > <a href="node/188?slide=3" class="previous"> Previous </a> > | Image <span class="current"> 1 </span> of > > <span class="total"> 1 </span> | > > <a href="node/188?slide=2" class="next"> Next > </a> > </div> > > What i need to do is to hide "header" div if span class "total" > contains number 1. (like it is in above example) I tried code > something like this but no success: > > $(document).ready(function() { > if ($('.total').contains("1") { > $('div.header').hide(); > }) > });
