jQuery function to get all unique elements from an array?

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You can use array.filter to return the first item of each distinct value-

var a = [ 1, 5, 1, 6, 4, 5, 2, 5, 4, 3, 1, 2, 6, 6, 3, 3, 2, 4 ];

var unique = a.filter(function(itm, i, a) {
    return i == a.indexOf(itm);
});

console.log(unique);

If supporting IE8 and below is primary, don’t use the unsupported filter method.

Otherwise,

if (!Array.prototype.filter) {
    Array.prototype.filter = function(fun, scope) {
        var T = this, A = [], i = 0, itm, L = T.length;
        if (typeof fun == 'function') {
            while(i < L) {
                if (i in T) {
                    itm = T[i];
                    if (fun.call(scope, itm, i, T)) A[A.length] = itm;
                }
                ++i;
            }
        }
        return A;
    }
}

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