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Xurinos on Jan 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things You Might Not Know about jQuery

You don't have to use $(document).ready() anymore

As far as I know, this was always the case. The reason people use $(document).ready() is that it feels more correct, is more consistent. jQuery() supports three distinct behaviors:

    $(function)   => jQuery(document).ready(function)
    $(objects)    => Wrap objects with jQuery functionality
    $("selector") => Find objects, and wrap them with jQuery functionality

One of these is not like the others.

wrs on Jan 6, 2011 [–]

Actually, there are four!

    $("<tag>") => Make a DOM element and wrap it

This wild overloading of $ is one of the things I find hard to deal with in jQuery.

Xurinos on Jan 6, 2011 | [–]

Doh, that's right, and it is one of the coolest and most fun to abuse features of jQuery.

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