jQuery: Count number of list elements?

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I've got a list that is generated from some server side code, before adding extra stuff to it with jQuery I need to figure out how many items are already in it.

<ul id="mylist">
    <li>Element 1</li>
    <li>Element 2</li>
</ul>
html jquery
9 Answers

Try:

$("#mylist li").length

Just curious: why do you need to know the size? Can't you just use:

$("#mylist").append("<li>New list item</li>");

?

cletus_183930 
var listItems = $("#myList").children();

var count = listItems.length;

Of course you can condense this with

var count = $("#myList").children().length;

For more help with jQuery, http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page is a good place to start.

Nick_Allen_-_Tungle139_129180

I think this should do it:

var ct = $('#mylist').children().size();
Andrew_Barrett_688180

try

$("#mylist").children().length
user_30118560

Another approach to count number of list elements:

var num = $("#mylist").find("li").length;
console.log(num);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="mylist">
  <li>Element 1</li>
  <li>Element 2</li>
  <li>Element 3</li>
  <li>Element 4</li>
  <li>Element 5</li>
</ul>

user_69048880 

$("button").click(function(){
    alert($("li").length);
 });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Count the number of specific elements</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
  <li>List - 1</li>
  <li>List - 2</li>
  <li>List - 3</li>
</ul>
  <button>Display the number of li elements</button>
</body>
</html>

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