I'm lead to this question when trying to figure out the difference between jQuery's .get() and .index(), I've looked over the jQuery API and I still don't get what the difference is between them, maybe i'm not understanding the terminology?
What's the difference between a jQuery object and a DOM element? And are a DOM element and a DOM node the same thing? Are they just <div> and <a> etc. is a DOM node/DOM element just an HTML tag?
EDIT: and isn't the DOM just the structure of the page? <html><body>etc.</body></html>?