Question

var buttons =$('input[type="button"]');
var arr = (buttons).makeArray;
for(i=0;i <= arr.length ; i++  )
{ $('.chat_tabs').append(arr[i]).val() ;}

this is not working , it this the correct way , what else should i do, have seen many questions but not able to co-relate and get my self right, in first line a had extracted the all DOM elements which are button type i want to extract value from all of them and also run a loop to print them all or even if want to compare or do any thing else….main concern is to make them array and extract values while running loop.

Answer 1

$('input[type="button"]').each(function(){

    $("div").append($(this).val()+"<br/>");
    //alert($(this).val());

});

here is the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/d9xQP/2/

have alook at .each

here is your code

var buttons =$('input[type="button"]');
for(i=0;i < buttons.length ; i++  )
{

    $('.chat_tabs').append(buttons.eq(i).val()+"<br/>");
}

http://jsfiddle.net/d9xQP/4/