Remove item from list

Question

I want to remove all the li from my unordered list but I want to keep the li before the last li anybody an idea how it's done ?

I now have

$('.pagination ul li:not(:last)').remove();

but that removes everything but the last one so it isn't correct

Answer 1

Use :eq() with a negative index - this will count from the end of the collection instead of the beginning.

In your case, you'll want to use an index of -2 (-1 would be the last <li>), like so:

$('.pagination ul li:not(:eq(-2))').remove();

Here's a quick demonstration.