Question

So, my question in it’s most basic form:

<div id="total"> 0 </div>

and what I’m hoping to accomplish with jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {
  if ("#total" > 2){
    /*do something*/
  }   
});

I feel like this should be something relatively easy, but the syntax is escaping me. Any help would be extremely helpful. Thanks!

Rob

Answer 1

You can use the text method to get the text of an element, and parseInt to get a Number from that:

if(parseInt($("#total").text(), 10) > 2) {
    //Do something
}

Here’s a working example.

Note how the selector (#total) is passed into jQuery ($(selector)). In your question you have the correct selector, but it’s just a string, so your if statement would compare the string “#total” to the number 2.