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1. 

   Nathan

   09/04/2009

   You don’t need the “> 0″, you can simply write:

   
if ( $('#myElement').length ) {
// it exists
}


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     Eliazer

     02/18/2010

     No true, since jQuery always returns an object with length 0
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     radiance

     07/04/2011

     it’s true. If element exists: length > 0, and condition is true.
     If element not exosts: length = 0 and condition is false
2. 

   Juan Trigueros

   11/05/2010

   Even easyest and reusable, you can define a function:

   jQuery.fn.exists = function() { return this.length>0; };

   And use it, anywhere, simple like this:

   if ($(‘#myElemento).existe()) { … }

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3. 

   Jonathan Fontes

   01/13/2011

   Better,

   if($(element).size()){
   // …
   }

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     Mathias Bynens

     05/27/2011

     That’s not better at all. jQuery#size simply returns the length property, so just save the function call and access the length property directly.
4. 

   El garch Hicham

   03/03/2011

   nice tuto :P

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