text from divs into array for sorting
<p>I'm trying to get all the text of a particular class into an array. </p>

<p>The below works theoretically, but it puts them into an object, not an array, and .map apparently is widely unsupported in most versions of IE :(</p>

<pre><code>var valuesArr = $('.'+sort_column);
var valuesArr =  valuesArr.map(function(){return $(this).text().trim();});
</code></pre>

<p>Is there any way to get all the values into a plain and simple array that I'm just missing?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>
