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

this reference a javascript object and $(this) used to encapsulate with jQuery.

Example =>

// Getting Name and modify css property of dom object through jQuery
var name = $(this).attr('name');
$(this).css('background-color','white')

// Getting form object and its data and work on..
this = document.getElementsByName("new_photo")[0]
formData = new FormData(this)

// Calling blur method on find input field with help of both as below
$(this).find('input[type=text]')[0].blur()

//Above is equivalent to
this = $(this).find('input[type=text]')[0]
this.blur()

//Find value of a text field with id "index-number"
this = document.getElementById("index-number");
this.value

or 

this = $('#index-number');
$(this).val(); // Equivalent to $('#index-number').val()
$(this).css('color','#000000')