jQuery, list of unique classes to jQuery set in same order?

Question

Is it possible to feed jQuery a list of unique classes and have a jQuery set returned with the elements in the same order given. It seems the default is to return in DOM order.

Answer 1

Pass in an array of DOM nodes into the jQuery constructor to guarantee the order. Here's one way of doing it:

$($.map(array_of_selectors, function(selector) {
    return $.makeArray($(selector));
}));

You could replace the call to $ with document.getElementsByClassName, as both results would be converted into an array of elements.