Question

I’m trying to get all the text of a particular class into an array.

The below works theoretically, but it puts them into an object, not an array, and .map apparently is widely unsupported in most versions of IE 🙁

var valuesArr = $('.'+sort_column);
var valuesArr =  valuesArr.map(function(){return $(this).text().trim();});

Is there any way to get all the values into a plain and simple array that I’m just missing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Simple iteration:

var array = [];

$(".elements").each(function() {
    array.push($.trim($(this).text()));
});

console.log(array);

Or with jQuery map method:

var array = $(".elements").map(function() {
    return $.trim($(this).text());
}).get();

console.log(array);​

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/f6cmR/