How can I get jQuery $('.class', context) to include context itself if it matches .class?

Question

I want to be able to match against all elements in a given context including the context element itself.
Here is the code I'm using currently, but it seems inefficient. Is there a better way?
Note: I'm using jQ 1.3.2, but I'll upgrade soon so I'm interested in 1.4 solutions too.

var context = $('#id');   
var filters = '.class1, .class2';

// take context itself if it matches filters
$(context).filter(filters)
// add anything matching filters inside context
.add($(filters, context))

Note: .add($(f,c)) works in jQ 1.3 as .add(f,c) in jQ 1.4

Answer 1

You can do this:

$(context).find('*').andSelf().filter(filters)

.andSelf() appends the previous element on the stack, in this case the context. But...I'm not sure this is really any better than your current approach, with the filtering it's a bit slower. I think you've just hit a situation that doesn't look pretty, would be nice if .andSelf() took a selector, then you could do:

$(context).find(filters).andSelf(filters)

Still not a huge improvement though.