hide everything except the first element with jquery

Question

Is there a one lined way to hide all of a certain type of elements in one selector. I know you could do this:

$('p').hide();
$('p:first(or :eq(0)').show()

Possibly something like this:

$('p:eq(>0)')

Answer 1

slice() will probably give the best performance:

$('p').slice(1).hide();

...where 1 is the second element in the results and 0 would be the first. This is faster because it uses native methods instead of a custom filter.

Alternatively, you could use :not() or .not():

$('p:not(:first)').hide();

//or $('p').not(':first').hide();

Answer 2

http://jsfiddle.net/x6DEY/

$("p").not(":first").hide();

This should work too but is ugly:

$("div:not(:first)").hide();