title: Can jQuery selectors be applied to an element rather than the whole document?
body: <pre><code>jQuery('td[class=bgoff]').each(function() {
      var td = jQuery(this);
      ... no apply selector to "this" only
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm working with tabular data in html and trying to parse the contents of each TD (they are not uniquely identifiable).</p>
  
  <p>Using XPath, I can prepend the path of "this" to additional selecting. </p>
  
  <p>How can I achieve this with jQuery?</p>