How to find if div with specific id exists in jQuery?

Question

I’ve got a function that appends a

to an element on click. The function gets the text of the clicked element and assigns it to a variable called

Answer 1

Try to check the length of the selector, if it returns you something then the element must exists else not.

if( $('#selector').length )         // use this if you are using id to check
{
     // it exists
}


if( $('.selector').length )         // use this if you are using class to check
{
     // it exists
}

Use the first if condition for id and the 2nd one for class.