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Thomas1703
Thomas1703

Reputation: 1172

check if object is defined in jquery to avoid errors

In case that there is an objects called (id) "ABC123", I want to scroll down automatic to that object. That works fine if this object exist. But if not, I receive an error: "TypeError: $(...).offset(...) is undefined"

My code should avoid this error, but doesn't work:

if(typeof($('#ABC123')) != 'undefined') {
        $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: ($("#ABC123").offset().top-100) }, 0).scroll();
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (2)

Eli
Eli

Reputation: 14827

A jQuery object will never be null or undefined, even you're not passing any argument $(), In this case it's just empty and simply do nothing.

Seem like you want to check whether it's empty or not:

if ($('#ABC123').length) {
    $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: ($("#ABC123").offset().top-100) }, 0).scroll();
});

Upvotes: 0

Denys Séguret
Denys Séguret

Reputation: 382464

The jQuery collection is never undefined.

Simply test that it's not empty :

if ($('#ABC123').length) {

Upvotes: 4

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