Question

Really struggling with this simple code here. I’m checking if the section with #setactionsuccess exists if not I want to create it and prepend it to the container. First part works smooth but it never goes to ‘else’ (and the condition is met – I triple checked that). Any help greatly appreciated.

if ($('#setactionsuccess')){
    var currenttime = new Date();
    $('#setactionsuccess').empty();
    $('#setactionsuccess').html('<h2>Set successfully deleted</h2><p>Set was successfully removed from this Edition on '+currenttime+'</p>');
} else {
    console.log('here');
    var string = '<section class="successful" id="setactionsuccess"><h2>Set successfully deleted</h2><p>Set was successfully removed from this Edition on '+currenttime+'</p></section>';
    console.log(string);
    $('#currentsets').prepend(string);
}

Answer 1

if ($('#setactionsuccess')) always returns true
because javascript cheks for null and undefined and jquery never returns a null or undefined even when any element with id setactionsuccess dosent exists
try looking for length for the selector $('#setactionsuccess').length