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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:10:52+00:00

I am trying to understand why you would use jQuery.get() and jQuery.get(index) . The

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I am trying to understand why you would use jQuery.get() and jQuery.get(index). The docs say it is to convert the jQuery selection to the raw DOM object instead of working with the selection as a jQuery object and the methods available to it.

So a quick example:

$('div').get(0).innerHTML;

is the same as:

$('div').html();

Obviously this is a bad example but I am struggling to figure when you would use .get(). Can you help me understand when I would use this method in my code?

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  1. Cody Lindley (jQuery Team Member) has a great example of why you would use get()

    If you ever need to cache a set of elements, because you are about to remove them, the jQuery get() method is really handy. For example, in the code below I am saving all my <li> elements on the page in an array, removing them, and then adding them back into the page using this array. Make sense?

    <html>  <head>  <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js'></script>  </head>  <body>  <ul>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>      <li>test</li>   </ul>  <script>  var test = $('ul li').get();  $('ul').empty();  $.each(test, function(){ $('ul').append('<li>'+$(this).html() + ' new</li>'); });  </script>  </body>  </html>
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