I am working on some JS with JQuery. I'm trying to get some list items and store them into an array. I can't understand what I'm doing wrong, the problem is explained in the commentaries of the following code.

function getListItems() {
        let items = [];
        const $items = $listElement.children('li');
        $items.each(index => {
            console.log($(this)); // shows an empty array, according to JQuery doc it should show the DOM element
            items.push($($items.get(index)).html()); // Works, but what it would be cleaner to do this : items.push($(this).html())
//... which does not work
        });
        return items;
    }

So my question is why $(this) is an empty array ?