create an associative array in jquery

Question

This is what I have so far and the shoe types are boots, wellingtons, leather, trainers (in that order)

I want to iterate through and assign th

Answer 1

What you want is a function that will return an object {}

LIVE DEMO

function shoe_types(){
   var shoeObj = {};
   $('[name="number"]').each(function(){
     shoeObj[this.id] = this.value;
   });
   return shoeObj;
}

shoe_types(); // [object Object]