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| Jul 21, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | Salman Arshad |
No, jQuery.first() or jQuery.eq(0) both return objects, objects are truthy even if they are empty-ish. This example should illustrate why these functions cannot be used as-is: if(jQuery("#does-not-exist").eq(0)) alert("#does-not-exist exists")
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| Jan 18, 2014 at 9:04 | history | answered | Salman Arshad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |