I would assume because you are forcing the matched jQuery collection to be a Raw DOM object with .get(0) it then becomes the context when you go to do the find().
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:39 AM, eskimoblood <koebe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why is the context of this one the document: > $('div.layer').find(':checkbox') or $('div.layer').eq(0).find > (':checkbox') > and at this the div.layer > $($('div.layer').get(0)).find(':checkbox')