Question

I have a bunch of elements with <div id='id1'></div> and would like to return the quantity/count of them.

I am using the following code, but it always returns the value of 1:

alert( $('#id1').size() );

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I figured out my own answer. I should have done:

alert( $('body #id1').length );

I just needed it to return a value greater than 1, and this does the trick.

I know I should be using class instead of id, but in my program, class is already used for something specific and I do another action based on the class which can’t have multiple class names, but that’s another story, and outside the scope of this topic. Thanks to everyone who chimed in though.