JQuery: How to find out how many children an element has?

children, dom, find, javascript, jquery

Solution

Use `children` and `length`:

$("#container").children().length

Problem

How can I use jQuery to find out how many children an element has? Say I have the following structure: ``` <div id="container"> <div id="column1"> <div id="asset1"></div> <div id="asset2"></div> </div> <div id="column2"> <div id="asset1"></div> <div id="asset2"></div> </div> </div> ``` I want to find out how many children the div element: container, has. In this case it would return 2...

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