Turn array of jQuery elements into jQuery wrapped set of elements

Question

Is there any elegant way of turning [$(div), $(span), $(li)] into $(div, span, li)?

What I need is a jQuery-wrapped set of elements instead of

Answer 1

you could do something like this:

var $temp = $();
$.each([$("li"), $("li"), $("li")], function(){
    $temp.push(this[0]);
})

$temp all your elements in one jQuery selector

But i am curious what brings you to this situation having an array of different jQuery elements. You know that you can select different elements using a comma? like $("li, ul > li:eq(0), div")

edit as Guffa pointed out, this only adds the first element of each section. .add() is a better choice then .push() here.