>yes, all of what you said is correct.. an alternative way to access a
>single dom element would be $("p#thisIsMyParagraph").get(0) (both ways
>to access the dom element are correct).. just one advice, it's much
>faster to find the element with just the id, without the tag,.. because
>when writing the tag, jquery has to look through all the paragraphs to
>find the one with the 'thisIsMyParagraph' id..I haven't really spent any time looking through the parsing engine, but wouldn't it be faster to find elements by ID and then filter by the tag? -Dan
