"obviously I think 2nd is a jQuery variable? If that's the case why
should I care and where is the docs on that? "
It just seems to be common practice by a lot of jQuery people smarter
than us to signify it's a jQuery object stored in that variable, it
has zero to do with jQuery itself per se
On Jul 2, 2:29 pm, Michael Lawson <mjlaw...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Just to addon to what Waseem here has said:
>
> When you are using the default jQuery library, the variable $ is set to the
> value of jQuery, which creates a shortcut for you so that you don't have to
> keep typing jQuery everytime you want to access it, you can just type $.
>
> cheers
>
> Michael Lawson
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>
> 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
> find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't harm yourself
> or others, only then should you accept them.'
>
> From: waseem sabjee <waseemsab...@gmail.com>
>
>
> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Date: 07/02/2009 02:26 PM
>
>
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: var $varname
>
>
> its not really a jquery variable
>
> in standard js you can say
> var $myvar = "hello";
> and
> var myvar = "hello";
>
> both will work the same
>
> you can access jquery using either the $ or JQuery
> like
>
> $("#myid").hide();
> JQuery("#myid").hide();
>
> in a line of the JQuery library code you would see something like
>
> JQuery = window.JQuery = window.$ ...
>
> your could say its like short hand code
>
> instead of saying JQuery("") al the time you can just say $("")
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM, expresso <dschin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> what's the difference between:
>
> var varname
>
> var $varname
>
> obviously I think 2nd is a jQuery variable? If that's the case why
> should I care and where is the docs on that?
>
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