On May 20, 3:37 pm, Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how to describe, or search for, my question in
> existing discussions. I apologize in advance for my lack of search
> savvy.
>
> I understand that you can take an ordinary DOM object and create a
> jQuery reference out of it:
>
> var myDOMObject = document.myform.mytextfield;
> var myJQueryRef = $(myDOMObject);
> var myHtml = myJQueryRef.html();
>
> I know, I can chain. But for the sake of this example, I won't.
>
> Is there a way to do the opposite? An imaginary method could be:
>
> var extractedDOMObject = myJQueryRef.extractObject();
> var myHtml2 = extractedDOMObject.innerHTML;
>
> What might be used to replace the imaginary extractObject() method?
You want $.get(), which returns an array of DOM elements, or
$.get(index) which returns a single element. If you want a single
item, then $('#objectOfMyDesire').get(0) is your method of choice.
Reference: http://docs.jquery.com/Core/get
Cheers,
Pyro
