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:empty

Matches all elements that have no children (including text nodes).

Examples:
Finds all elements that are empty - they don't have child elements or text.

$("td:empty").text("Was empty!").css('background', 'rgb(255,220,200)');


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="../jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("td:empty").text("Was empty!").css('background', 'rgb(255,220,200)');
  });
  </script>
  <style>
  td { text-align:center; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <table border="1">
    <tr><td>TD #0</td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td>TD #2</td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td><td>TD#5</td></tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>

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