Hi,
I think that is because of the alert function.
It needs a string and maybe for an anchor object, jquery introduces a
toString method.
With the console of firebug, there are no differences between anchor and
images
Pierre
2009/6/11 bensan...@gmail.com <bensan...@gmail.com>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm confused as to why when I have:
>
> $('a').click(function(){
> alert(this);
> return false;
> });
>
> the alert displays the URL defined in the href attribute, and not an
> object.
>
> Yet, if i call like say an image, it returns the object.
>
> Thanks
> ben
>
