Question

I’ve got a list that is generated from some server side code, before adding extra stuff to it with jQuery I need to figure out how many items are already in it.

<ul id='mylist'>     <li>Element 1</li>     <li>Element 2</li> </ul> 

Answer 1

Try:

$('#mylist li').length 

Just curious: why do you need to know the size? Can’t you just use:

$('#mylist').append('<li>New list item</li>'); 

?