[jQuery] How to extract an object from a jQuery reference?
I'm not quite sure how to describe, or search for, my question in
existing discussions. I apologize in advance for my lack of search
savvy.
I understand that you can take an ordinary DOM object and create a
jQuery reference out of it:
var myDOMObject = document.myform.mytextfield;
var myJQueryRef = $(myDOMObject);
var myHtml = myJQueryRef.html();
I know, I can chain. But for the sake of this example, I won't.
Is there a way to do the opposite? An imaginary method could be:
var extractedDOMObject = myJQueryRef.extractObject();
var myHtml2 = extractedDOMObject.innerHTML;
What might be used to replace the imaginary extractObject() method?
Thanks,
Jerome.