jquery - how to check if element has any classes attached to it

Question

you would imagine this would be easy to implement, but oh well..

anyway, I have an element to which classes are added or removed based of interaction on the site.

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Answer 1

You have to check if class attribute:

• Present but no class( class="")
• Not present(undefined)

.

  // with class attribute but no class
   // even without class attribute so no class

attr = $("#mydiv").attr("class")
hasClass = (attr == undefined || attr.replace(/\s+/, '') == "" )