If a ul
has more than one li
-element inside of it, something should happen, otherwise not!
What am I doing wrong?
if ( $('#menu ul').length > 1 ) {
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If you have a dom object of the ul, use the following.
$('#my_ul').children().length;
A simple example
window.setInterval(function() {_x000D_
let ul = $('#ul'); // Get the ul_x000D_
let length = ul.children().length; // Count of the child nodes._x000D_
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// The show!_x000D_
ul.append('<li>Item ' + (length + 1) + '</li>');_x000D_
if (5 <= length) {_x000D_
ul.empty();_x000D_
length = -1;_x000D_
}_x000D_
$('#ul_length').text(length + 1);_x000D_
}, 1000);
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
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<h4>Count of the child nodes: <span id='ul_length'>0</span></h4>_x000D_
<ul id="ul"></ul>
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Another approach to count number of list elements:
var num = $("#menu").find("li").length;_x000D_
if (num > 1) {_x000D_
console.log(num);_x000D_
}
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<ul id="menu">_x000D_
<li>Element 1</li>_x000D_
<li>Element 2</li>_x000D_
<li>Element 3</li>_x000D_
</ul>
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Warning: Answers above only work most of the time!
In jQuery version 3.3.1 (haven't tested other versions)
$("#myList li").length;
works only if your list items don't wrap. If your items wrap in the list then this code counts the number of lines occupied not the number of <li> elements.
$("#myList").children().length;
gets the actual number of <li> elements in your list not the number of lines that are occupied.
Use $('ul#menu').children('li').length
.size() instead of .length will also work
You have to count the li elements not the ul elements:
if ( $('#menu ul li').length > 1 ) {
If you need every UL element containing at least two LI elements, use the filter function:
$('#menu ul').filter(function(){ return $(this).children("li").length > 1 })
You can also use that in your condition:
if ( $('#menu ul').filter(function(){ return $(this).children("li").length > 1 }).length) {
alert( "Size: " + $( "li" ).size() );
alert( "Size: " + $( "li" ).length );
Both .size() and .length return number of item. but size() method is deprecated (JQ 1.8). .length property can use for instead of size().
also you can use
alert($("ul").children().length);
Please use .size() function instead of .length and also specify li tag in selector.
Change your code like.
if ( $('#menu ul li').size() > 1 ) {
The correct syntax is
$('ul#menu li').length
Make the following change:
console.log($("#menu li").length);
alert( "Size: " + $("li").size() );
or
alert( "Size: " + $("li").length );
You can find some examples of the .size() method here.
Source: Stackoverflow.com