I would suspect this to work at first:
if ($('#element') == $('#element')) alert('hello');
But it does not. How does one test if elements are the same?
7 Answers
This should work:
if ($(this)[0] === $(this)[0]) alert('hello');
so should this
if (openActivity[0] == $(this)[0]) alert('hello');
9 years later, without jQuery
If two elements are the same one, two elements must have the same pointer. Thus,
document.body === document.body // true
document.querySelector('div') === document.querySelector('div') // true
document.createElement('div') === document.createElement('div') // false
Like silky or Santi said, a unique ID or class would be the easiest way to test. The reason your if statements don't work like you'd expect is because it's comparing 2 objects and seeing if they're the same object in memory.
Since it's always a new object getting created by $(this), they can never equal each other. That's why you have to test on a property of the object. You could get away with no unique id/class if each openActivity element was guaranteed to have different content that you could test against.
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