Question

Say I do

var s = $('#something');

and next I want to test if jQuery found #something, i.e. I want to test if s is empty.

I could use my trusty isempty() on it:

function isempty(o) {
    for ( var i in o )
        return false;
    return true;
}

Or since jQuery objects are arrays, I suppose I could test s.length.

But neither seem quite in the idiom of jQuery, not very jQueryesque. What do you suggest?

Answer 1

Use the s.length property.

if(s.length == 0) {
    ...
}

[edit] size() deprecated in jquery 1.8
http://api.jquery.com/size/