Difference between find and filter in jquery

Question

I\'m working on fetching data from wiki pages. I\'m using a combination of php and jquery to do this. First I am using curl in p

Answer 1

.find() http://api.jquery.com/find/

Get the descendants of each element in the current set of matched elements, filtered by a selector, jQuery object, or element.

Filter, on the other hand, works on the currently matched elements. That's why filter worked but find did not (you needed to look at the current element).