response stackoverflow
HTML
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
JavaScript
var elements = {}; // <- object
var myformat = function(n) {
return (String(n).length == 1 ? '0' : '') + n;
}
$('div').each(function(i, el) {
elements[myformat(i)] = el;
});
console.log(elements);