jQuery slice()
by start and end
<!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").slice(1,3).css("background-color", "yellow"); });//www . ja v a 2 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>