How can we count child elements inside a div using jQuery

Hariom Prajapati

19 Jun 2022

JQuery

In this tutorial we will see that how to count number of child elements inside a div using jQuery .lenght property.

let's see the example to count number of child elements present inside a div using jQuery.

Here we will count number of child elements (p) inside a div.

Count number of child element inside a div

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <title>Teknowize</title>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="DemoDiv">
        <p>welcome</p>
        <p>to</p>
        <p>teknowize</p>
    </div>
    <br>
    <button type="button" class="button">Get Total no of rows</button>

    <script>
        $('.button').click(function () {
            var TotalpTags = $('#DemoDiv p').length;
            alert(TotalpTags);
        })
    </script>

</body>

</html>

Output