Using jQuery to see if a div has a child with a certain class

Question

I have a div #popup that is dynamically filled with several paragraphs with the class .filled-text. I\'m trying to get jQuery to tell me if #

Answer 1

Use the children funcion of jQuery.

$("#text-field").keydown(function(event) {
    if($('#popup').children('p.filled-text').length > 0) {
        console.log("Found");
     }
});

$.children('').length will return the count of child elements which match the selector.