Question

I would like to count number of elements on remote page:
For example remote page:

test.html with following structure

<div id="Layout">
   <div class="product">...</div>
   <div class="product">...</div>
   <div class="product">...</div>
</div>

Then I would like call from test2.html

   <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
           $('#result').load('/test.html #Layout product').length();
        });
    </script>

This code is not working. What is the right way to do it?
Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to wait until the elements are actually loaded, you can use the callback function argument of the $.load method:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#result').load('/test.html #Layout', function () {
    var products = $('.product', this).length;
    alert(products);
  });
});

Check the above example here.

Also, if you don’t want to insert the loaded elements into the DOM, you can load them into a new empty element, for example:

$('<div></div>').load('/test.html #Layout', function () {
  var products = $('.product', this).length;
  alert(products);
});