Count li elements that are visible with jQuery

Question

Im counting my li elements with the following jQuery script:

HTML:

<ul class="relatedelements">
   <li style="display:none;" class="1">anything</li>
   <li style="display:none;" class="2">anything</li>
   <li style="display:none;" class="3">anything</li>
</ul>

jQuery:

    $(function() {
        var numrelated=$('.relatedelements > li').length;
        $('.num-relatedelements').html(numrelated); 
    });

--> The script returns: 3

I change the style="display: none" property of some of the li elements when $(document).ready with jQuery, like: $('.2').show();

I now want to change the script in a way to count only the visible li elements with the following script (i just added :visible following the jQuery docs):

    $(function() {
        var numrelated=$('.relatedelements > li:visible').length;
        $('.num-relatedelements').html(numrelated); 
    });

--> The script returns: nothing

I have no clue why it doesn't work out - maybe anyone has any tip or idea? Any help is much appreaciated. Thanks upfront!

Answer 1

work fine for me

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.2').show();
    var numrelated=$('.relatedelements > li:visible').length;
    $('.num-relatedelements').html(numrelated); 
});​

JsFiddle Lind : http://jsfiddle.net/xuckF/1/

Answer 2

Works fine here:

http://jsfiddle.net/jtbowden/FrPPr/ (1 visible)

http://jsfiddle.net/jtbowden/FrPPr/1/ (0 visible)

Now, using numbers as class names is illegal. (W3C Spec, bullet 2) Class names must start with a letter. Maybe doing manipulations with that is causing problems?

Other than that, I can only guess your problem is elsewhere. Are you using the latest version of jQuery? (Although in my tests, it works all the way back to 1.3, and then it doesn't work at all)

Did you misspell "visible" in your actual code. (I've done this before)

Answer 3

Element assumed as hidden if it or its parents consumes no space in document. CSS visibility isn't taken into account.

View:

<ul class="relatedelements">
   <li class="1 hidden">anything</li>
   <li class="2 hidden">anything</li>
   <li class="3 hidden">anything</li>
   <li class="4">anything</li>
    <li class="5">anything</li>
    <li class="6">anything</li>
    <li class="7 hidden">anything</li>
</ul>

<div class="num-relatedelements"></div>

CSS

.hidden {
    display: none;
}​

JS

$(function() {  
   var numrelated= $('.relatedelements > li:not(.hidden)').length;
   alert(numrelated);
   $('.num-relatedelements').html(numrelated); 
});​

I've made a jsfiddle for you: http://jsfiddle.net/mgrcic/3BzKT/3/