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$find shorthand for getElementByID?

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NuJoizey

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recently, I ran across some javascript that looks like:

var myControl = $find("someControlOnPage");


What is this syntax? I hadn't seen it before and I can't seem to find anything more about it - but it apparently works, but where does it come from? Are there other similar commands?
 
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