Question

I’m using Chrome and the build in developer tools. What I do the following in the console

$('.votes > a > img')[0]

I get this

<img src="/myimage_png">

But if I do

$('.votes > a > img')[0].get(0).tagName

I get

TypeError: Object #<HTMLImageElement> has no method 'get'

I don’t understand why sometimes I’m able to do .get(0).tagName and sometimes I’m not (depending on what my selector is of course)

Answer 1

.get() retrieves a specified DOM element from a list of elements. the $('.votes ...') stuff call returns such an element list. You dereference this list with [0], fetching the first of the found nodes. That means you’re no longer working with a DOMNode list, you’re working with a DOMElement, and a DOMElement has no .get() method.