The jQuery find(..) traversal method doesn't include the current node - it starts with the children of the current node. What is the best way to call a find operation that includes the current node in its matching algorithm? Looking through the docs nothing immediately jumps out at me.
For jQuery 1.8 and up, you can use .addBack(). It takes a selector so you don't need to filter the result:
object.find('selector').addBack('selector')
Prior to jQuery 1.8 you were stuck with .andSelf(), (now deprecated and removed) which then needed filtering:
object.find('selector').andSelf().filter('selector')