What's the difference between '$(this)' and 'this'?

Question

I am currently working through this tutorial: Getting Started with jQuery

For the two examples below:

$(\"#orderedlist\").find(\"li\").each(function          


        

Answer 1

Yes, you need $(this) for jQuery functions, but when you want to access basic javascript methods of the element that don't use jQuery, you can just use this.