how to limit the jquery search scope

Question

It looks like JQuery does the search in the current document when using a selector.

How to search for an element only inside a div

Answer 1

var elems = jQuery(".foo", jQuery("#divYourWantToLimitTo") );  //BAD
//or
var elems = jQuery("#divYourWantToLimitTo .foo");  //Better
//or
var elems = jQuery("#divYourWantToLimitTo").find(".foo");  //BEST