Introduction of doesExist, or exists in jQuery Core

[evilwebdesign@…]

Hy, I know that you can easily check whether an element is available on the dom by checking the length, but if you need to run that statement over and over again, you get kind of annoyed. thats why I created the jQuery doesExist Plugin, which simply returns true or false if the element is available. I know calling this a plugin is a bit oversized, but who cares, I would be totally overwhelmed if you could include this into the core of jQuery.

simple preview: ​http://evilwebdesign.bplaced.net/doesExist/

[dmethvin]

The .length property tells you this already, and quite often you don't need even that--just chain away and it will be a no-op if no elements are selected. It could be done as a tiny plugin but isn't suitable for core.