jQuery Examples- $("li:lt(2)")

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Description

"$("li:lt(2)")" selects all elements matched by <li> element before the third one; in other words, the first two <li> elements.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this selector −

$("element:lt(index)")

Parameters

Here is the description of all the parameters used by this selector −

element − Any standard HTML tag name like div, p, em, img, li etc.
lt(index) − eq checks the index of the elements to be less than as provided one.

Returns

This selector returns array of found elements.

Example

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Selector Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js">
      </script>
		
      <script type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function() {
            /* Selects the first three <li> elements.*/
            $("li:lt(2)").css("background-color", "yellow");
         });
      </script>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <ul>
         <li class="big">This is index : 0 list item of the DOM.</li>
         <li class="medium">This is index : 1 list item of the DOM.</li>
         <li class="small">This is index : 2 list item of the DOM.</li>
         <li class="small">This is index : 3 list item of the DOM.</li>
         <li class="small">This is index : 4 list item of the DOM.</li>
      </ul>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

jqueryexamples_selectors.htm

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