That pretty much sums up the beauty of jQuery. :)
- Richard
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:51 AM, BradW <brad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aha! So if I understand the implications of this, a selector always
> returns a wrapper object that acts like BOTH a javascript array and
> like a single DOM element – even though it is really neither. And
> this allows us to write elegant code that treats selectors as single
> objects, or as arrays, whether nothing or one thing or 17 things are
> found. Is that right?
>
> On Oct 21, 7:35 pm, Dave Methvin <dave.meth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > if ( $("#missing").length == 0 )
> > // it's not there
> >
> > However, remember that if you apply jQuery methods to an empty
> > selection it does nothing:
> >
> > $("#missing").hide(); // no-op
>
