I know this is probably obvious…but what exactly is jQuery doing when I prefix a variable name with ‘$’. I know this is placing the variable in the global namespace, but why?
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I know this is probably obvious…but what exactly is jQuery doing when I prefix a variable name with ‘$’. I know this is placing the variable in the global namespace, but why?
That is completely false.
$is an ordinary object (actually a function) that happens to have a short name.$itself is a global (a property of thewindowobject)