How to get the first element of an array?

Question

How do you get the first element from an array like this:

var ary = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth']; 

I tried this:

alert($(ary).first()); 

But it would return [object Object]. So I need to get the first element from the array which should be the element 'first'.

Answer 1

like this

alert(ary[0]) 

Answer 2

Why are you jQuery-ifying a vanilla JavaScript array? Use standard JavaScript!

var ary = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth']; alert(ary[0]); 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array

Also,

Source, courtesy of bobince