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Check if element exists in jQuery [duplicate]

How do I check if an element exists if the element is created by .append() method? $('elemId').length doesn't work for me.
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How do you check if a selector matches something in jQuery? [duplicate]

In Mootools, I'd just run if ($('target')) { ... }. Does if ($('#target')) { ... } in jQuery work the same way?
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Check if a div exists with jquery [duplicate]

Yes, I know this has been asked a lot. But, it confuses me, since the results on google for this search show different methods (listed below) $(document).ready(function() { if ($('#DivID').length)...
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Check if element exists [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Is there an “exists” function for jQuery jQuery determining if element exists on page if(tr) is returning true when tr is not an element, how do I check whether ...
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How to check if an object with an ID already exists on the page? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there an “exists” function for jQuery Say for instance you have the div: <div id="hello"></div> And you are dynamically creating a div: <div ...
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Check if multiple elements with same class exist [duplicate]

Wonder if there's any way to check if elements with the same class exists in a document. For example: <div class="panel">panel 1</div> <div class="panel">panel 2</div> <...
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How can I check if append element already exists? [duplicate]

I have something like this: if (result.Indicator == 1) { $('#IndicatorImgDiv').append($('<img />').attr("src", "/Content/images/reddot.png")); } Now, this appends an image of a red dot ...
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Need to change this JQuery code to check for element existence prior to processing [duplicate]

I have the following code: <script type="text/javascript"> $(function () { $('#js-news').ticker({ speed: 0.10, ...
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how to know if a div with specific id exists using jquery [duplicate]

I am working on a simple program which lets users to add some text when clicking on add text button. However, when user clicks again on the "add Text" button, a new text area should not be added ...
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How to check a div is exists or not? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there an “exists” function for jQuery <div class="XXX"> <div class="created"> </div> </div> div class="created" automatically ...
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how to check for jQuery's FIND result [duplicate]

I've been struggling with this simple script and could not find related problem here in StackOverflow. Here is my problem. I have two boxes. A box is highlighted with blue if <div class="...
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How to check that a div exists jquery and if it does do nothing [duplicate]

I'm trying to check to see if an div called .errormsg exists and if it does then I don't want anything to happen but if it doesn't exist i want my form to redirect to a new URL after it. This is what ...
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Why does this if always return true? [duplicate]

I am checking for string inside of a div element using jquery but it allways returns the if never the else even when the dom doesn't contain then $ what stupid mistake am i making? $('.bw-switcher')....
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check if element is inserted on page [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there an “exists” function for jQuery Is there a better way to check if the element is already inserted on page? I'm currently doing this and is working fine, ...
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How to check if dynamically created div's exist using jquery [duplicate]

I am creating these div's dynamically when user adds products to compare. //code in jquery var innerdiv='<div id="innerdiv'+value.code+'"'+'>'+value.name+'<img src="'+value.thumbnail+'"/>&...
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