jQuery selector takes a second argument that sets context.

Submitted by shane on Sun, 2010-03-21 06:12

I was trying to concatenate a select to the almighty 

this

in jQuery, but it just wasn't working.

I tried

$(this + 'input')

Didn't work, so I thought, maybe I need a space between this and input like so:
$(this + ' input')

No go..

Then I ran across this page.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306583/jquery-this-selector-and-children

Of course StackOverFlow has the answer.

The working result

$('input', this)

Perfect!!!

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