jquery find versus context selection

Question

Having the following html snippet

<div class="something">     <p>Some text</p> </div> <div class="somethingElse">     <p>some other text</p> </div> 

I think the following jquery snippets are identical (will have the same result):

$(".something").find("p").css("border", "1px solid red");  $("p", ".something").css("border", "1px solid red"); 

My question is, whether one snippet is better than the other and should be used

Answer 1

The calls are not identical.

According Brandon Aaron, who apparently worked on jQuery, and also according to the live tests here, the find method is always faster. See results in the screenshot below. Please comment if I am missing something.

With a 10% or greater difference in speed, depending on browser, it definitely seems worth using find.

Further explanation at Brandon's site is here.