How to select a DOM element that was passed in as a parameter with Jquery
<p>So I have</p>

<pre><code>&lt;span onclick="show(this)"&gt;foobar&lt;/span&gt;

function show(theSpan) {
    ....... //select the span here
}
</code></pre>

<p>How could I use Jquery selector to select the span? I tried $(theSpan) but it doesn't work. I want to select it as a Jquery object so that I can apply attr() to it.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>
