.toArray()

toArray ( ) Returns: Arrayversion added: 1.4

Description: Retrieve all the elements contained in the jQuery set, as an array.

.toArray() returns all of the elements in the jQuery set:


alert( $( "li" ).toArray() );

All of the matched DOM nodes are returned by this call, contained in a standard array:

[<li id="foo">, <li id="bar">]

Examples:

Example: Select all divs in the document and return the DOM Elements as an Array; then use the built-in reverse() method to reverse that array. 

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>css demo</title>

  <style>

  span {
    color: red;
  }

  </style>

  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  

Reversed - <span></span>

<div>One</div>
<div>Two</div>
<div>Three</div>

<script>

function disp( divs ) {
  var a = [];
  for ( var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++ ) {
    a.push( divs[ i ].innerHTML );
  }
  $( "span" ).text( a.join( " " ) );
}

disp( $( "div" ).toArray().reverse() );

</script>

  
</body>
</html>

Demo: