Question

If I want to save this as a jQuery DOM object and then select it, which method below should I use?

var element = $(this)

And then for selecting

$(element)

Or simply

var element = this

Also, if I want then to concatenate element into a larger selector, is this:

$(element + " .class")

the right way?

Answer 1

var element = $(this)

Then you can use element instead of $(this). You don’t have to insert element into $() anymore.

For example : element.remove() instead of $(this).remove()