Test if two elements are the same

Question

I would suspect this to work at first:

if ($(\'#element\') == $(\'#element\')) alert(\'hello\');

But it does not. How does one test if ele

Answer 1

9 years later, without jQuery

If two elements are the same one, two elements must have the same pointer. Thus,

document.body === document.body // true
document.querySelector('div') === document.querySelector('div') // true
document.createElement('div') === document.createElement('div') // false