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Encosia on Oct 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: jQuery 1.4.3 Released

That isn't necessary. This does the same thing:

  var d = $('#elm');
  d.color('red');
  // do some stuff here.
  d.text('new text');

andrewf on Oct 17, 2010 [–]

Some use the convention that jQuery objects should be prefixed with $, so:

  var $d = $('#elm');
  $d.color('red');
  $d.text('new text');

I do this, and like it, despite my classic aversion to both Systems Hungarian and GW-BASIC.

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