jQuery is not finding elements

Question

jQuery is not finding any elements. alert($(\"#testbutton\").length); displays 0 every time.

Am I doing something wrong?

My JS / jQuery cod

Answer 1

Call it on document ready as you can see here: http://jsfiddle.net/SwQUH/

$(document).ready(function() {
  alert($("#testbutton").length);
});

If you just call it like that, the DOM isn't 'ready' and the HTML element doesnt yet exist.