[jQuery] Passing this to a function

[jQuery] Passing this to a function


Can i pass 'this' to a custom function from an event handler
eg.
$('p').('click',function() {
myCustomEvent(this);
});
myCustomEvent(ref) {
//ref Object or JQuery object ?
$.get("path_to_cgi",{name = ref.text()},function(data)
{ alert("Data : " + data});
}