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== Why is this an issue?
jQuery doesn't cache elements for you. If you've made a selection that you might need to make again, you should save the selection in a variable rather than making the selection repeatedly.
=== Noncompliant code example
With the default threshold of 2
[source,javascript]
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$( "p" ).hide();
$( "p" ).show(); // Noncompliant
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=== Compliant solution
[source,javascript]
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var paragraph = $( "p" );
paragraph.hide();
paragraph.show();
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=== Exceptions
Stored selections are not updated when the DOM changes. Since variables may need to updated this rule ignores selections that are repeated during an assignment.
[source,javascript]
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var paragraph = $("p");
// ...
paragraph = $("p");
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== Implementation Specification
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== Comments And Links
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