Get the last item from node list without using length property in JavaScript?

Javascript Web Development Object Oriented Programming

Let’s say the following is our table −

<table id="demo" border="1">
<tr>
<td>John</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>David</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mike</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

Use the following with text() to get last item −

$('table tr:last td')

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initialscale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table id="demo" border="1">
<tr>
<td>John</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>David</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mike</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
   var lastValue= $('table tr:last td').text();
   console.log("The last value is="+lastValue);
</script>
</body>
</html>

To run the above program, save the file name “anyName.html(index.html)” and right click on the file. Select the option “Open with Live Server” in VS Code editor.

Output

This will produce the following output −

AmitDiwan

Updated on: 11-Sep-2020

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