Question

In jQuery or JS I need to count the amount of DIV elements inside my parent DIV called cont? I’ve seen similar questions here on StackOverflow and have tried the following.

<div class="b-load" id="cont">
    <div>
    <img src="page2.jpg" alt=""/>
    </div>
    <div>
    <img src="page3.jpg" alt="" />
    </div>
    <div>
    <img src="page4.jpg" alt="" />
    </div>
    <div>
    <img src="page5.jpg" alt="" />
    </div>
</div>

function countPages() {
    var maindiv = document.getElementById('cont');
    var count = maindiv.getElementsByTagName('div').length;
    alert(count);
}

The child DIV’s are dynamically produced, so I need to count them after the page has finished loading. The problem I have is the function I wrote counts 13 DIV’s and in this example, there should only 4!! Any help gratefully received..

Answer 1

console.log($("#cont div").length);