jquery removeClass for all but the first item?

Question

I'm doing the following right now which works great:

 $('#picker a').removeClass('selected');

where:

<div id="picker">
 <a href="" class="selected">Stuff</a>
 <a href="" class="selected">Stuff</a>
 <a href="" class="">Stuff</a>
 <a href="" class="selected">Stuff</a>
</div>

How can I update the jQuery to say, remove class selected from all BUT the first row. Ignore the first row in picker.

Thanks

Answer 1

$('#picker > a').slice(1).removeClass('selected');

This uses a valid querySelectorAll selector, along with the slice()^(docs) method which will be very fast.

Answer 2

Negate :first, like this:

$('#picker a:not(:first)').removeClass('selected');