Question

I’m debugging a piece of jquery and found this snippet which i don’t understand.

Would someone mind breaking it down so that I can research the individual parts?

 window.specific = $('.' + specific_class);

Answer 1

specific is defined in “window scope” outside the function. specific_class would have some class name in it and it is used in jQuery selector and matched elements are assigned to window.specific.

Live Demo

window.specific = "";
specific_class =  'someclass';

function myfun()
{
    window.specific = $('.' + specific_class);
}