jQuery: Check if div with certain class name exists

You can simplify this by checking the first object that is returned from JQuery like so:

if ($(".mydivclass")[0]){
    // Do something if class exists
} else {
    // Do something if class does not exist
}

In this case if there is a truthy value at the first ([0]) index, then assume class exists.

Edit 04/10/2013: I’ve created a jsperf test case here.