What does $find('mycontrol') do that jquery’s $('#mycontrol') doesn’t?
How are they different?
Sorry, I’m a JS novice.
What does $find(‘mycontrol’) do that jquery’s $(‘#mycontrol’) doesn’t? How are they different? Sorry, I’m
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What does $find('mycontrol') do that jquery’s $('#mycontrol') doesn’t?
How are they different?
Sorry, I’m a JS novice.
The first is invalid unless you defined a function named
$find, and the selector is missing its#if theid-selector[docs] is intended.If you mean:
vs
Then:
the first searches from within the context of the elements matched by
$('.someSelector')the second searches the entire document.
Because you’re trying to get an element by ID, you might as well use the second version because there can only be one on the page anyway (IDs must be unique), and selecting by ID is generally very fast.
If
#mycontrolshould only be fetched if it happens to descend from some other selector, you could use the second version, but this would be a rare case I would think.