And that seems to be what I'm looking for. Thanks for pointing this
out.
Jerome.
On May 20, 2:56 pm, Pyrolupus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> >jQueryreference 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
