Re-running a selector and wrapping an element in the jQuery object aren't even close to the same thing: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.j

Re-running a selector and wrapping an element in the jQuery object aren't even close to the same thing: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L67 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L67 Wrapping elements in event handlers is completely fine.