Edit: As of jQuery 1.4, using
$()
will work as described below.
I need to loop through an array and create a number of elements which I want to have in a single jQuery result object.
for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
$myJQueryObj = $myJQueryObj.add($("<span>blahblah</span>"));
}
The problem with this, however, is that you need a jQuery object to begin with, and you obviously want to start it empty. In the above example, how should I initialise $myJQueryObj
?
The following examples do not work, as they all select the document object:
$('')
$()
$(null)
$(false)
These do work... but...
$('#nonExistantElement') // yuck
$().slice(0,0) // surely there's a nicer way?
Is there a better way?
Yep. Try $([])
. The reason $()
doesn't work is because that jQuery expects a context, and without any supplied, will default to document
as the context. Many things depend on this assumption being true, so changing $()
to mean "give me the empty set" would be problematic at best.
Ah, I figured it out just after I wrote the question. Here's what I found, in case anyone else is interested:
$([])
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