Select all child elements except the first

Question

Say I have the following:

<ul>  <li>First item</li>  <li>Second item</li>  <li>Third item</li> </ul> 

How would I select all the child elements after the first one using jQuery? So I can achieve something like:

<ul>  <li>First item</li>  <li class="something">Second item</li>  <li class="something">Third item</li> </ul> 

Answer 1

You should be able to use the "not" and "first child" selectors.

$("li:not(:first-child)").addClass("something"); 

http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/not

http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/firstChild