Question

I have this

 var selected = []
        $('#SelectBoxContainer .DDLs :selected').each(function (i, selected)
        {
            alert($(selected).val());
            selected[i] = $(selected).val();
        });

My alert is telling me that it is going through this loop and getting the select box values. Yet once everything is said and done there is nothing in my “selected” array.

Answer 1

Your callback defines a local variable named selected, which hides the selected variable in the outer scope. The selected in selected[i] = is the selected from function (i, selected), not the selected from var selected.

Rename one of the two variables for this to work.