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The original context passed to jQuery().

Description

The .context property holds the original context passed to jQuery() which could be a DOM node context, or generally the document context, if no node was passed.

This method was deprecated in jQuery 3.5 and removed in jQuery 3.0.

Syntax

Parameters

None.

Return

An element from the DOM or the document context.

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The original context passed to jQuery() which could be a DOM node context, or generally the document context, if no node was passed.

The example below no longer works from jQuery 3.0 onwards and is just shown as an example for people using earlier versions.

$(function(){
  $('#btn').on('click', function() { 
    var context = $('*').context; 
    alert(context); 
  });
}); 

Related Tutorials

jQuery Basic Tutorials - Lesson 2 - jQuery Core & Internals

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