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Asked: 2026-06-17T05:52:58+00:00

I’m a bit new to jQuery so forgive me for being dense. I want

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I’m a bit new to jQuery so forgive me for being dense. I want to select all <td> elements on a particular page via Chrome’s JS console:

$('td')

Yet when I do this, I get the following output:

<td>Apples</td>

Isn’t jQuery supposed to return an array of elements with the <td> tag? Why am I only seeing the first element that matches this criteria?

Here is the site in question: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

EDIT: I’d like to add that when I type a jQuery function into Chrome console, I do NOT get a jQuery object back. I get a plain HTML element. Something must be wrong with the way my Chrome is set-up/configured.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If jQuery isn’t present on the webpage, and of course no other code assigns something to $, Chrome’s JS console assigns $ a shortcut to document.querySelector().

    You can achieve what you want with $$(), which is assigned by the console a shortcut to document.querySelectorAll().

    To know if the page contains jQuery, you can execute jQuery in the console. To know if jQuery is assigned to $, you can execute $().jquery which will return jQuery version if that’s the case.

    Also, there are browser addons to inject jQuery in every webpage.

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