Question

If i have a js variable that contains some html tags, how can I determine the number of tags inside the variable? Something like this:

contents = "<p>something</p><p>something else</p>";
$(contents).find("p").length > 2;

Basically, I’m doing a $(".someClass").each() and iterating through a bunch of elements – when I encounter a <p> tag I’m putting it in the variable with .html() and now I need to know whats inside the variable to make another decision but my approach above isn’t working.

Answer 1

Change .find to .filter.

.find searches children, but in your string, all the <p> tags are parents, they aren’t children of anything.