How do I store multiple jQuery selectors in a javascript variable?

Question

Obviously it\'s a good idea to store jQuery selectors in variables if they are used more than once (not a good idea if used only once).

My question is, how do y

Answer 1

a selector is a string when passed to the $() fn. returns a collection of Elements that match the selector. So there is nothing wrong with this code.

Your code can also be written as,

var object1 = "#object1",
    object2 = "#object2";

$(object1).add(object2).doSomething();

or it can be further optimized as,

var object1 = $('#object1'),
    object2 = $('#object2');

object1.add(object2).doSomething();

where doSomething can be a jQuery or jQuery plugin defined method.