title: What is the difference between $("<tag></tag>") and $('<tag>')?
body: <p>From the context of the code I am reading, it seems like <code>$("&lt;tag&gt;&lt;/tag&gt;")</code> creates a tag, where as <code>$('&lt;tag&gt;')</code> is a selector that searches for a tag.  What's going on here?  Actually I might not have the syntax of the second one right, but I'm sure I've done <code>$('idName')</code> like this before.</p>
  
  <p>What's going on?  </p>