Determining whether jQuery has not found any element

Question

I\'m using jQuery\'s selectors, especially id selector:

$(\"#elementId\")...

How should I determine whether jQuery has found the element or

Answer 1

Futuraprime is right but you can shorten your syntax by doing the following:

if ($("#id").length) {
   //at least one element was found
} else {
   //no elements found
}