Question

I have a list:

<ul id="coll-selected-list" class="droptrue sort-drop ui-sortable">
              <li class="sortedli" style="">blah</li>
              <li class="sortedli" style="">blee</li>
              <li class="sortedli" style="">blu</li>
              <li class="sortedli" style="">blum</li>
</ul>

I want to check it item blah exists in the above list. However my code doesn’t work, any ideas?

var itemName = "blah";
           if ($("#coll-selected-list li:contains(" + itemName + ")").length) {
               alert("exists");
           }

Answer 1

Add quotes :

if ($('#coll-selected-list li:contains("' + itemName + '")').length) {