JavaScript jQuery Basics Working with jQuery Collections jQuery-Specific Selectors

Amandeep Pasricha
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Collection of DOM elements vs Jquery objects?

I don't understand what the difference was here. She was talking about differences in what Javascript vs Jquery returned.

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Clayton Perszyk
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The browser uses JavasScript DOM objects to render the webpage. jQuery objects are wrappers around one or more DOM elements, and allow access to the DOM elements in a more effective way.

this article expands upon the differences further:

https://howtodoinjava.com/jquery/javascript-dom-objects-vs-jquery-objects/