Does jQuery do any kind of caching of “selectors”?

Question

For example, will the first piece of code perform a full search twice, or is it smart enough to cache results if no DOM changes have occurred?

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Answer 1

jQuery doesn't, but there's the possibility of assigning to variables within your expression and then use re-using those in subsequent expressions. So, cache-ifying your example ...

if ((cached = $("#navbar .heading")).text() > "") {
  cached.hide();
}

Downside is it makes the code a bit fuglier and difficult to grok.