Using an if statement to check if a div is empty

Question

I\'m trying to remove a specific div if a separate div is empty. Here\'s what I\'m using:

$(document).ready(function () {
    if (\'#leftmenu:empty\') {
             


        

Answer 1

It depends what you mean by empty.

To check if there is no text (this allows child elements that are empty themselves):

if ($('#leftmenu').text() == '')

To check if there are no child elements or text:

if ($('#leftmenu').contents().length == 0)

Or,

if ($('#leftmenu').html() == '')