Determining whether jQuery doesn't find any element

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Published on 2010-05-20T20:44:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 20:50 UTC
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Hi,

I'm using jQuery's selectors, especially id selector:

$("#elementId")...

How should I determine whether jQuery has found the element or not? Even If the element with the specified id doesn't exist the next statement give me: [object Object]

alert($("#idThatDoesnotexist"));

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