jQuery: if element exists

Last updated on August 18th, 2017

Use the .length property of the jQuery collection returned by your selector. To check if a div element with the ID of myDiv exists:

if ( $( "#myDiv" ).length ) {
 
    alert('It exists!');
 
}

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