jQuery: Getting the two last list items?

Question

I want to apply a special class to the two last list items in an unordered list with jQuery. Like this:

<ul>
<li>Lorem</li>
<li>ipsum</li>
<li>dolor</li>
<li class="special">sit</li>
<li class="special">amet</li>
</ul>

How to? Should I use :eq somehow?

Thanks in advance

Pontus

Solution 1

Another approach, using andSelf and prev:

$('ul li:last-child').prev('li').andSelf().addClass("special");

Solution 2

You can use function slice. It is very flexible.

$('ul li').slice(-2).addClass("special");

Solution 3

var items = $('ul li')
var last_two = items.filter('li:gt('+ items.length-3 +')')
last_two.addClass('special');

Solution 4

$(function(){

  $("li:gt("+($("li").length-3)+")").addClass("special");

});

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Comments

[Marc]

alternatively: items.slice(items.length - 2).addClass('special')

[ponjoh]

Thanks a lot, but what do I then do with the variable "last_two"?

[Marc]

last_two.addClass("special");

[ricka]

I wouldn't consider this "native".

[ZalemCitizen]

andSelf() was deprecated since jQuery 1.8 and removed in 3.0