The majority of jQuery methods returns a jQuery object, which can be accessed like it is an array (e.g. it has a .length
attribute, elements can be accessed using the square bracket notation ([0]
), and it supports some array methods (slice()
)).
jQuery has a method called toArray()
which can be used to convert the jQuery object to a real array.
You can also use get()
with no arguments to achieve the same effect (and save you a few key presses).
In future, you can checkout the jQuery API, and the return type for all jQuery methods is listed in the relevant documentation (e.g. for find()
, the return type is “jQuery”)