What’s the difference between ‘$(this)’ and ‘this’?

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Yes you only need $() when you’re using jQuery. If you want jQuery’s help to do DOM things just keep this in mind.

$(this)[0] === this

Basically every time you get a set of elements back jQuery turns it into a jQuery object. If you know you only have one result, it’s going to be in the first element.

$("#myDiv")[0] === document.getElementById("myDiv");

And so on…

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