Thanks; that makes sense. But Firebug also changed the way it displays
true arrays. Arrays of simple types like [1,2,3] are listed; arrays
that contain objects are displayed as "Object". console.dir() helps,
but it was nice to have it all in one line.

Danny

On Jan 2, 12:46 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote:
> jQuery('div') is not an array. It has length but not splice. So
> Firebug does not format it as an array.
>
> In Javascript, the line between what is an array and what is not an
> array is unclear.  After many versions the current test in Firebug
> requires an array to have 'length' and 'splice'. Earlier versions of
> Firebug only required 'length', but that caused some objects to be
> formatted as arrays that did not have numerical indexes.
>
> jjb
>
> On Jan 1, 10:10 pm, Danny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else using jQuery noticed that Firebug before 1.2 would
> > treat console.log(jQuery('div')) as an array and list all the matched
> > elements on the console, so you could mouse over the list and
> > highlight the elements, or right-click and scroll into view etc., but
> > now it just lists "Object length=13" and you need to click on that,
> > then you get a vertical list that you need to scroll through. The old
> > way was more helpful, I think.
>
> > Workaround: console.log.apply(console, jQuery('div').get()) comes
> > close to reproducing the old behavior.
>
> > I'll crosspost this on the jQuery list.
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