what does “return this.each()” do in jQuery?

Question

I\'m looking at a jQuery plugin, which has a single function. After setting up the appropriate defaults though a constructor argument the function defines a couple of helper fu

Answer 1

It returns the JQuery object which method is called on as stated in the docs. So you can call another method on the returned value.

// without method chaining
myobject.a()
myobject.b()
myobject.c()

// with method chaining
myobject.a().b().c();

See method chaining and fluent interface