I've always been confused between HTMLCollections, objects, and arrays when it comes to DOM. For instance...
document.getElementsByTagName("td")
and $("td")
?$("#myTable")
and $("td")
are objects (jQuery objects). Why is console.log also showing the array of DOM elements beside them, and are they not objects and not an array?Please also provide any interpretation of the below script.
[123,"abc",321,"cba"]=[123,"abc",321,"cba"]
{123:123,abc:"abc",321:321,cba:"cba"}=Object { 123=123, abc="abc", 321=321, more...}
Node= Node { ELEMENT_NODE=1, ATTRIBUTE_NODE=2, TEXT_NODE=3, more...}
document.links= HTMLCollection[a #, a #]
document.getElementById("myTable")= <table id="myTable">
document.getElementsByClassName("myRow")= HTMLCollection[tr.myRow, tr.myRow]
document.getElementsByTagName("td")= HTMLCollection[td, td, td, td]
$("#myTable")= Object[table#myTable]
$("td")= Object[td, td, td, td]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Collections?</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
console.log('[123,"abc",321,"cba"]=',[123,"abc",321,"cba"]);
console.log('{123:123,abc:"abc",321:321,cba:"cba"}=',{123:123,abc:"abc",321:321,cba:"cba"});
console.log('Node=',Node);
console.log('document.links=',document.links);
console.log('document.getElementById("myTable")=',document.getElementById("myTable"));
console.log('document.getElementsByClassName("myRow")=',document.getElementsByClassName("myRow"))
console.log('document.getElementsByTagName("td")=',document.getElementsByTagName("td"));
console.log('$("#myTable")=',$("#myTable"));
console.log('$("td")=',$("td"));
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#">Link1</a>
<a href="#">Link2</a>
<table id="myTable">
<tr class="myRow"><td>td11</td><td>td12</td></tr>
<tr class="myRow"><td>td21</td><td>td22</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>