Easier way to get a jQuery object from appended element

jquery css-selectors append
slolife picture slolife · Sep 18, 2009 · Viewed 55.2k times · Source

Is there an easier/quicker way to get the element added using jQuery append:

How to get the $selectors element:

$container.append('<div class="selectors"></div>');
var $selectors = $('.selectors', $container);

I tried:

var $selectors = $container.append('<div class="selectors"></div>');

but that makes $selectors = $container

Maybe that's the quickest/best way. Just checking.

Answer

cletus picture cletus · Sep 18, 2009

Why not just:

var el = $('<div class="selectors"></div>');
$container.append(el);

?

Then you have access to 'el'.

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