JS node access shortcut

weird to me as for now

by drpeck

HTML

<h3>On mouse over color</h3>

  <ul>
  <li id="noob">N00B</li>
  <li id="coder">C0D3R</li>
  </ul>

JavaScript

var someVar = noob;
console.log(someVar); // output <li id="noob">
//Edit below added on 6-18-2017
//This question was finally answerd in stackoverflow :)
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44168711/why-does-js-recognize-an-dom-node-when-assigned-as-a-variable