Test if two elements are the same

Question

I would suspect this to work at first:

if ($(\'#element\') == $(\'#element\')) alert(\'hello\');

But it does not. How does one test if ele

Answer 1

Like silky or Santi said, a unique ID or class would be the easiest way to test. The reason your if statements don't work like you'd expect is because it's comparing 2 objects and seeing if they're the same object in memory.

Since it's always a new object getting created by $(this), they can never equal each other. That's why you have to test on a property of the object. You could get away with no unique id/class if each openActivity element was guaranteed to have different content that you could test against.