Is there a 'not found' exception for jquery selector?

Question

I just spent \'hours\' with the following scenario: (all back to the basics)

 $(\'#typo\').bind(\'click\' etc ...

I had a typo in the selec

Answer 1

The jquery selector returns an array of DOM Elements so if you check the length of it, if it is greater than 0 it found something, if it is equal to 0 it didn't

  if($("selector").length > 0) found;