Saving Dom Element in Variable

$(this)

by codeSpy

HTML

<a href="#a">Bar</a>
<a href="#b">Foo</a>

<input id="lastValueButton" type="button" value="Last One" />

JavaScript

var clickedNode = [];

var counter = 0;

$("a").click(function(){
    clickedNode[counter] = $(this);
    alert(clickedNode[counter].text());
    counter++;
});


$("#lastValueButton").click(function(){
    alert(clickedNode[counter-1].text());
});