Performance of jQuery selectors vs local variables

Question

Is it recommended that, when I need to access the result of a jQuery selector more than once in the scope of a function, that I run the selector once and assign it to a loca

Answer 1

Don't forget this one:

var execute = function(){ 
    $('.myElement')
        .css('color','green')
        .attr('title','My Element')
        .click(function(){ 
            console.log('clicked'); 
        });
}