jQuery event handling - bind to document or 'body' element?

Question

I have noticed the use of $(document) and $(\'body\') when we want to reference the entire page, especially when binding events.

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Answer 1

$('body') targets the html element, while $(document) targets the entire html document. That means if you want to reference something in the element you'll want to get there from $(document) because that's a direct path.

For your purposes, based on what you've shown us, they should be equivalent.