How do I use jQuery to check to see if the content of a <div>
is empty?
I tried this and is doesn't seem to be printing the correct values.
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var unframed_items = $("#unframed-items");
alert(unframed_items.html().length);
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<div id="unframed-items"> </div>
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If you mean really empty, use the empty-selector
[docs] :
alert( !!$("#unframed-items:empty").length )
or
alert( $("#unframed-items").is(':empty') )
If you consider whitespace-only to be empty, then use the jQuery.trim()
[docs] method:
alert( !$.trim( $("#unframed-items").html() ) );
<div id="portfolio"><!--portfolio-->
<div id="portfolio-works"><!--portfolio-works-->
<div class="portfolio-works-container"></div>
</div><!--/portfolio-works-->
$(document).ready(function(){
if($('div.portfolio-works-container').is(':empty')){
$('div#portfolio').hide();
}
});
Use $('#elementId').is(':empty')
.