jQuery selectors

checking if something were found

by Eugene Manager

HTML

<label for="patient_gender" class="validation_error_message help-block"></label>

JavaScript

var name = "patient_gender";
            var errorSelector = '.validation_error_message[for="' + name + '"]';
            //console.log(errorSelector);
            //console.log(error.html());
            var $element = $(errorSelector);
            if ($element.length) { //        .length
            console.log('found')
            } else {
            console.log('nothing')
            }