Question

What would be the best way to write the following selector?

id = "#id",
$id = $("#id");
//works but seems wrong    
$($id, 'a').click(function(){
 //do stuff..
});

//this was not working for me.
$id.find('a').click(function(){
 // do stuff...
});

Answer 1

the proper syntax for the shorter find is:

$('a', $id).click(function(){
 //do stuff..
});

this finds all anchor tags within $id

to use it with the find fn:

$id.find('a').click(function(){
 // do stuff...
});

this is all under the assumption that ur markup is like so:

<div id='id'> //div or any other html element
    ... any code
    <a href.... ></a> << the anchor can be anywhere inside this div
</div>