my understanding (acc. to book "jQuey in Action" and other sources, like http://jquery.open2space.com/node/10) is that the standard jQuery wrapper always returns an array containing all matching elements.. however, for some very odd reason I can't get an element by referring to its index in the array...
for example: divs = $('div'); div2 = divs[2]; // this line is ignored (or SOMETHING weird is happening here..) // div2.addClass('red'); // so get error here that 'div2.addClass' is not a function.. have a page with above code (and other code) here, http://www.mayacove.com/dev/jquery/arrays.html am stumped here, have been dealing with this for days.. don't get what's happening here (using jQuery version 1.2.1 (maybe this only works in 1.3?)) now this is actually not a huge deal b/c in troubleshooting this have found other methods (like filter :eq and other methods.. but still, I think it's strange that I can't make it work with array index..) thank you...