jQuery determine if selected element's CSS has certain property via identifying attribute
<p>I have a UL list inside that UL list is a handful of LI's that all have "rel" attributes as identifying tokens as the ID/Class tags have been used for other reasons. Anyway this is what I am attempting currently</p>

<pre><code>if($('#column1').find('li:[rel='+theElements[i]+']').css({'opacity':0})){hideit = true;}else{hideit = false;}
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<p>Which finds the right column, but then turns around and hides the whole column. I definately feel as though I am approaching this the wrong way. I tried .is(':visible') but I don't think that worked properly for me. Anyone have an Idea?</p>

<p>What I am doing based on the "hideit =" part is building a JSON string to control the layout and save things for a later date for my users.</p>
