> Throughout the many plugins I have devoured while attempting to learn > all of the secrets/gloriness of jQuery, I constantly run into > something like or close to <code>function(el){ //Code Here }</code>. > I'm guessing el is short for element and it's a variable of some sort, > but knowing my luck with programming anything, I'm completely wrong. > I've searched Google all night, but to no avail. Any help would be > great, thanks! P.S. On AIM, my SN is benstockdesign. Feel free to IM > me anytime (No cybering ladies... I'm strictly keeping my mind on > traversing, chaining, and manipulating! haha).
I often use 'el' as a variable name for a DOM element. I'm sure others do too.