jQuery Events: Count the number of specific elements

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:45 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Events : Exercise - 22 with Solution

Count the number of specific elements.

HTML code:

<body>
<ul>
  <li>List - 1</li>
  <li>List - 2</li>
  <li>List - 3</li>
  </ul>
   <button>Display the number of li elements in console</button>
   </body>

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!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 in console</button>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

$("button").click(function(){
    console.log($("li").length);
    });

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-events-exercise-22 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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