jQuery first()

Introduction

Select the first <p> element inside the first <div> element:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("div p").first().css("background-color", "yellow");
});/*from   w w w  .j av a 2 s  . c  om*/
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Welcome to My Homepage</h1>

<div style="border:1px solid black">
  <p>This is a paragraph in a div.</p>
  <p>This is a paragraph in a div.</p>
</div><br>

<div style="border:1px solid black">
  <p>This is a paragraph in another div.</p>
  <p>This is a paragraph in another div.</p>
</div>

<p>This is also a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

The first() method returns the first element of the selected elements. 

$(selector).first()



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