What is the difference between $(this) and this

Question

I have the following code

$(\'a\').click(function() {
var url= this.href;
alert(url);
});

This works just fine and sure enough the returned

Answer 1

Lots of good answers, just wanted to add that you could also do this:

$('a').click(function(e) {
    alert($(this)[0].href);
});