Question

Here is what I have so far: http://jsfiddle.net/6j4cT/3/

Sorry for not pasting the code as there is too much to add into this post.

Firstly the JQuery I have so far is not selecting first LI within the “news-items” and adding the class “active”.

Also, if anyone would like to rewrite my code to a cleaner format you are welcome to do so.

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Just give the class name active to the first li element:

<ul id="news-items">
    <li class="active">
        <a href="#">Node 1</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#">Node 2</a>
    </li>
</ul>

Reference: jsFiddle

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Status Update: jsFiddle Rev 2

You can also add the class using jQuery as such:

var periodToChangeSlide = 5000;
var pp_slideshow = undefined;
var currentPage = 0;
$('#news-items li:first').addClass('active');

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Re-Revised via Message Request: jsFiddle Rev 4

var periodToChangeSlide = 5000;
var pp_slideshow = undefined;
var currentPage = 0;
$('#news-feature-img-wrap li').css('display','list-item').slice(1).css('display','none');
$('#news-items li:first').addClass('active');

The new addition, per your message comments, will set display:list-item for only the first item while setting display:none for the remainder of the items since that has been sliced off via jQuery .slice() method.