What makes a jQuery object show up as an array in Chrome's Developer Tools?

Question

I\'m wondering how it\'s possible that jQuery objects show up as an array in the console log of Developer Tools in Chrome.

E.g. if I execute $(\'\')

Answer 1

You probably know this, but console.log is not displaying passed content "as is", it is trying to be "smart" and does some post processing. If you want to see original object "as is", there is console.dir method.