How to check null objects in jQuery

Question

I\'m using jQuery and I want to check the existence of an element in my page. I have written following code, but it\'s not working:

if($(\"#btext\" + i) != n         


        

Answer 1

The lookup function returns an array of matching elements. You could check if the length is zero. Note the change to only look up the elements once and reuse the results as needed.

var elem = $("#btext" + i);
if (elem.length != 0) {
   elem.text("Branch " + i);
}

Also, have you tried just using the text function -- if no element exists, it will do nothing.

$("#btext" + i).text("Branch " + i);