Yeah I was being sarcastic <| sep |> event . target is something that ' s available in the click event . This has nothing to do with jQuery . The event . target basically gives us the HTML of the clicked element , then I used jQuery to locate that particular element with the $ event . target selection . So instead of using something like $'. clickable ' as the selector and getting back both of the elements on the page , I only get the target and animate that . Look at this example where instead of the event . target I use the CSS class . <| sep |>$ 15 ? ? For Dark Souls that ' s not a waste at all . <| sep |> I was once listening to them in class when my English teacher came in and said Oh no please no <| sep |> Vafan dissar dom fboden ? ! En av vrldens bsta restauranger mitt ute i ingenstans