Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

jQuery traversal properties

As we know, we typically construct a jQuery object instance by passing a selector expression to the $() function. Within the resulting object, there lies an array structure containing references to each DOM element that matched that selector. What we haven't seen, though, are the other properties hidden in the object. For example, when a DOM traversal method is called, the .prevObject property holds a reference to the jQuery object the traversal method was called upon.

The jQuery object used to expose selector and context properties as well. Since they don't provide any value to us, they've been removed in jQuery 3.

To see the prevObject property in action, we can highlight an arbitrary cell of our table and examine ...