Since I learned about jQuery I’ve wondered why it didn’t give you access to the original DOM elements that it selects.\u00a0 Well, it turns out that it does.\u00a0 Unfortunately I didn’t find it sooner because it doesn’t work the way you’d expect it to.\u00a0 The method is get().<\/p>\n
You’d expect it to work like this… Unfortunately that returns undefined.\u00a0 Instead you must pass the get method an index since the jQuery object is essentially an array. This second method works beautifully!\u00a0 I’ve been able to get by for the most part with out this method because jQuery is so complete but this really puts the icing on the cake that is jQuery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I learned about jQuery I’ve wondered why it didn’t give you access to the original DOM elements that it selects.\u00a0 Well, it turns out that it does.\u00a0 Unfortunately I didn’t find it sooner because it doesn’t work the way you’d expect it to.\u00a0 The method is get(). You’d expect it to work like this… … <\/p>\n
\nvar selectedElement = $('#divIdToSelect').get();<\/code><\/p>\n
\nvar selectedElement = $('#divIdToSelect').get(0);<\/code><\/p>\n