I am quite new to Jquery. I have been reading a few books, but could not understand how to interpet what I see on the console when I run a simple selector:
$("table")
I get
jQuery.fn.init(3) [table, table.table.table-bordered, table#dataTable.table.table-bordered, prevObject: jQuery.fn.init(1)]
what does fn.init mean? I could guess that the number 3 means 3 matches. What does prevObject mean and what benefit do I get from knowing that?
I looked at the similar question, but it did not answer my question. What does jquery $ actually return?
I have also gone through the entire JQuery core documentation - I do know that the returned Object is a Jquery object which has a number of helpful methods. But here, I am trying to understand what is being printed on the console and how to interpret it when I am doing interactive development of Jquery for a new page in my Chrome console