Is the order objects are return by a jQuery selector specified?

Question

All jQuery selectors return an array of objects. Are these objects always in the same order as they are in the HTML? Can I rely on this?

Answer 1

Probably in the order it finds them, a selector pretty much traverses the DOM and when it finds an element that matches, puts it in an array.

You could maybe do a test by having say 5 textboxes with id's of "textbox_n" where n is a number, then alert the list and see what you get?