Question

I was wondering if the people over at jQuery implemented an alternative method to .get(), as in one that returns a jQuery object instead of a DOM node.

This way, I don’t have to

1. wrap the object retrieved using the .get() method with an additional $() call and
2. write my own jQuery plugin in order to provide that functionality.

I especially don’t want to do #2 because I will pretty much be reinventing the wheel, when a functionality already exists.

Answer 1

you can use .eq(index), which returns a jquery instance. For example

var mycoll = $("div.myDivs")
var firstElementOfCollection = mycoll.eq(0);

or as ThiefMaster pointed out in his comment below, these will work as well (and are potentially nicer depending what you are doing :))

$("div.myDivs:eq(0)");
$("div.myDivs:first");