jquery selector before-last

Question

I have a dynamic list and need to select the before last item.

<ul class="album">     <li id='li-1'></li>     <!-- ... -->     <li id='li-8'></li>     <li id='li-9'></li>     <li class='drop-placeholder'>drag your favorites here</li> </ul>  var lastLiId = $(".album li:last").attr("id"); // minus one? 

Answer 1

You can use .eq() with a negative value (-1 is last) to get n from the end, like this:

$(".album li").eq(-2).attr("id"); // gets "li-9" 

You can test it here.

Answer 2

Probably a neater way but how about:

var lastLiId = $(".album li:last").prev("li").attr("id");