Why can't I write captionText variable as var imageCaption = $(this img).attr('alt');?

Hi Jeff Heaton

You'll often use $(this) inside of an event callback, or inside of a .each() callback. I'm not sure exactly what video or step you're looking at but let's assume that you've selected a series of div tags that contain images in them. Each of those divs has a class named imageContainer. You could then select those divs like this:

$('.imageContainer');

Then, to act on those divs you could use jQuery's .each() method like this:

$('.imageContainer').each( function () {

});

This function runs once for each div -- inside the function you add the programming you want. If you would like to get the image inside the div and then get that image's alt value you'd do this:

$('.imageContainer').each( function () {
  var imageCaption = $(this).find('img').attr('alt');

  // add the rest of your programming here

});

Hope that helps.