jquery add function doesn't work as expected

Question

The following snippet doesn't work.

var empty = $();
var divs = $("div");
empty.add(divs);

There is a div element in the HTML and it is added correctly to divs. But the divs collection is not added to the empty jquery object. Any ideas what`s wrong with that?

Answer 1

.add won't change the original object. Try:

empty = empty.add(divs);