{"id":805,"date":"2014-10-14T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2015-08-17T06:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T06:13:51","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-window-and-window-in-jqueryjavascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/stack-overflow\/what-is-the-difference-between-window-and-window-in-jqueryjavascript\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between $(window) and window in jquery\/javascript"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"profile<\/a>
\nI’m a big fan of Stack Overflow<\/a> and I tend to contribute regularly (am currently in the top 0.X%<\/a>).\u00a0In this category (stackoverflow<\/a>)\u00a0of posts I will will be posting my top rated questions and answers. This, btw, is allowed as explained in the meta thread here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My quesiton<\/a> was:<\/p>\n

What is the difference between javascript window and jquery $(window)?<\/p>\n

I tried in the Chrome console and I get this:\u00a0\"enter<\/p>\n

So, I would conclude is “just” a window object wrapped in a jquery object in a way that then I can use jquery’s functions on it (like height(), width(), etc…)<\/p>\n

The answer, by user Elias Van Ootegem<\/a>\u00a0was:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

When you write\u00a0$(window)<\/code>, you should know that\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0piece of code is going to run on the JS engine. Ever why jQ objects all have parentheses around them? Simple because\u00a0$<\/code>\u00a0is a function object. Basically you’re calling the\u00a0$<\/code>\u00a0function, and passing the\u00a0native<\/em>\u00a0global, or\u00a0window<\/code>\u00a0object to it as an argument.<\/p>\n

If you browse through the jQ source code, you’ll see that it’ll pass that object on to many internal functions and in the end, it’ll return a jQ wrapper object.
\nSo yes, your assumptions are pretty much correct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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