actually you are not cloning your element, you are just making a pointer of the element in this line
foo = $(this); so its not the same element, its just a pointer comparing with an actual element DOM object you can see it live in action in this site if you have firebug http://x1fm.com/music/blog run your code var foo = false; jQuery('div div div div div div div div div').each(function() { foo = jQuery(this); // debugging in firebug console.log(jQuery(this), foo); console.log(jQuery(this) == foo); }); if you get div's out of the initial selector you are going to get more results but i think with those its just fine for now in the firebug console check the results and get your mouse over the elements that the trace did, you are going to see that one of them actually gets highlighted in the rendered web page and the other doesn't, but if you do click on them you are getting for sure the same result, so you may want to look to another way around the problem you were trying to solve with your solution unless im really wrong, and if i am please guys correct my path On May 8, 12:58 pm, Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to jQuery, and I have stumbled across a weird problem. > It may just be me fooling around, anyway here goes... > > var foo = false; > > $('div span').each(function() { > > foo = $(this); > > // debugging in firebug > console.log($(this), foo); > console.log($(this) == foo); > > }); > > You should, at least I am, think it's the same element, although it > returns false! I cannot figure out why.
