What does the jQuery function $('#myelement').is('*') do?
<p>What does the following code do:</p>

<p><code>$('#myelement').is('*')</code> </p>

<p>What does the asterisk signify? Since there is only one element, <code>#myelement</code>, I can't understand the point of using <code>is()</code>, which checks if an element matches a set of elements?</p>
