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Hi all,

I'm trying to retrieve the number of "option" elements with the "selected" attribute set to true from a "select" control in the DOM. To ease my debugging I'm using the "alert" javascript tool to display the number of such options. Here is the javascript code :

1. alert($('#possible_rarities > option[selected="true"]').length);

"possible_rarities" is the identifier of the "select" control in the DOM. Before launching the display, I have selected an option and checked that the "selected" attribute was set to true via Firebug. But the resut display is 0 after executing the script in Firefox. I do not meet this problem when running my script in IE.

For information, I use the version 1.4.2 of jQuery.

Does anyone have a solution ?