What's the difference between: $(this.el).html and this.$el.html

Question

What\'s the difference between:

$(this.el).html

and

this.$el.html

Reading a few backbone examples and so

Answer 1

Wrapping an element in $() appends the jQuery extensions to the object prototype. Once that's done it doesn't need to be done again, although there's no harm other than performance in doing it multiple times.