jQuery selector behaves differently in IE

Question

I have an element that looks like this:

I use the following selector to point to the a (anchor) element

$('.navigation-tabs .profile a')

This selector returns the following in Chrome :

Returns the following in IE (all versions):

What does the result in IE mean?

If the objective were to trigger the click event on the selector, how do I use the selector result in IE to do so?

Answer 1

Results are actually same. Result in chrome looks different because IE shows you plain js object, while chrome shows you markup, which is interactive by the way.

In your javascript code, you don't think about it and just use this objects.