Select the second <p> element whose index number is 1:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("p").eq(1).css("background-color", "yellow"); });/* www . j ava2 s. co m*/ </script> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to My Homepage</h1> <p>This is a test (index 0).</p> <p>CSS (index 1).</p> <p>I am from java2s.com (index 2).</p> <p>This is another test (index 3).</p> </body> </html>
The eq()
method returns an element with a specific index number of the selected elements.
The index numbers start at 0.
$(selector).eq(index)
Parameter | Optional | Description |
---|---|---|
index | Required. | index of the element. Can either be a positive or negative number. A negative number will start the index count from the end of the selected elements. |