Hash sign in jQuery calls

Question

Being a pragmatic coder I tend to miss some obvious things and I wonder, What\'s the difference between

$(\'loc\')
$(\'#loc\')

The more info th

Answer 1

$('loc') is an element selector, looking for <loc> elements.

$('#loc') is an #id selector, looking for id="loc" elements.

Think CSS when looking at almost all jQuery selectors, they're very close if not identical in most cases.