What is the difference between this and $(this) in jQuery?

Question

What is the difference between this and $(this) in jQuery? And when should I use which?

Answer 1

$() is the jQuery constructor function.

this is a reference to the DOM element of invocation.

so basically, in $(this), you are just passing the this in $() as a parameter so that you could call jQuery methods and functions.

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