weird behavior on $.makeArray

[simonxu]

my code sample is kind of like this

var source = {
    input : HTMLInputElement, 
    select: HTMLSelectElement, 
    fakeArray : HTMLNodeList 
}
for(var key in source){
  var arr = $.makeArray(key)
  if(arr.length>1){
      //do some thing here
  }
}

the result is buggy, $.makeArray do not turn source[select] into an array contains HTMLSelectElement,but an array contains its options. while source[select] do not meet this problem ,maybe because it does not own children and does not own length property? my test is based on chrome 20.0

[simonxu]

forgive my input errors, i set up a demo page on jsFiddle ​http://jsfiddle.net/damngoto/ExLbw/

[simonxu]

so my suggestion is if you wanna turn the options into an array, you'd better do it yourself:

$.makeArray(source['select'].children)

hope this will help you,:)

[mikesherov]

Thanks for contributing!

jQuery.makeArray makes no guarantees about what elements are members of the created array. Sure, the options element are not what you'd expect it to return, but this function is simply a convenience utility method that will return array-likes into arrays and nothing fancier.

With that said, I'm going to resolve this as wontfix.