Site Studio Placeholder question...

Hello all,
I was wondering if it's possible to check if a placeholder has a subtemplate, regiontemplate or data file associated to it through idoc...
for example, consider the code below:
<body>
<div id="content">

</div>
<div id="links">

</div>
</body>
I would like to see if "Links_Placeholder" has anything associated to it in Idoc script, and if it does, I would give my body a class of "2column" (<body class="2column">). Then through CSS I could change the width to be a 2 column layout instead of 1. This is as opposed to having 2 different templates... 1 single column layout, and one 2 column.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
DP

alternative would be: Create a custom section property called numColumns which your site contributor can give. This way you know the number of columns required for the layout.
regards,
deepak

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Thanks for the replies, but I have found the answers to all of the questions, i will put them here for others as well ...
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