> Even more than that, if you were to return $(this) you wouldn't be chaining > on the original object. > > // Return the same object that this function was > // called as a method of (i.e. the jQuery object). > return this; > > // Return a *new* jQuery object that contains the > // same DOM elements as this (probably not what > // you want). > return $(this);
That helped clear up some confusion on my part... > Thomas, you're right that there's nothing new about chaining. Sometimes > people think that jQuery introduced the technique, but it's been common > practice in JavaScript and other languages for a long time. For example: > > var s1 = 'Testing 123'; > var s2 = s1.replace( '123', '456' ).toUpperCase(); You're dead on. I really did think this was a new scripting technique. For whatever reason, I completely forgot that you can do this in the core JS language.
