Why doesn't $.each() iterate through every item?

Question

I have the following markup containing 10 pre elements with the class indent:

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Answer 1

$.each iterates over a collection of data. Since you pass a String that have 7 chars, it will iterate for each char. See the example of use:

$.each([52, 97], function(index, value) { 
  alert(index + ': ' + value); 
});