Iterating an associative array (key/value pair) in javascript with jQuery, where the values are jQuery objects

Question

I have an associative array which has a string-based key, and a jQuery object as the value. That object may contain more than one jQuery objects itself. Since this is an associated array, I should be able to iterate through it with code like the following.

$.each(array_name, function(key, value){
  // Code to actually do something here
}

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually iterate through the array at all. I notice that the length of the array is 0, despite containing objects. Short of making this an indexed array, and maintaining the index myself, I don't see what else to do. What am I doing wrong?

I have created a jsfiddle to illustrate what I am doing.

Answer 1

An object should be declared as {}

var test = {}

Changing that seems to fix the issue.