JQuery and 'this' object

Question

I have the following JQuery function being attached to the blur event of n textboxes on a webpage.

$(document).ready(function() {
        $(\"input[id$=\'_tx         


        

Answer 1

This article (please excuse the pun) explains how this works a little more:

Why I still prefer Prototype to JQuery

The author considers it a poor design decision for the JQuery library, but I'm not advocating either way. I just thought the article was pretty interesting.