Hi guys, sometimes we may need to count the number of elements under a particular element. jQuery helps us to find the number of elements very easily, consider the following HTML

<ul id="list">
	<li>1</li>
	<li>2</li>
	<li>3</li>
</ul>

we can use the following code to find out the number of list items under the UL

var count = $('#list').size() //here the value in count will be 3

If you want to find out the number of elements of all types under a particular elelment, then you can use  *

<div id="first">
<span>Span element 1</span>
<span>Span element 2</span>
<p>paragraph</p>
<span>Another span</span>
<div>another div</div>
</div>

If you want to find out the total number of ‘span’ elements under the div with id “first”, use the following code

var count = $("#first > span ").size() //value in the var 'count' will be 3

we can use the following code to get the number of elements of all types under the div with id “first”

var count = $("#first > *").size() //value in the var count will be 5