Question

How can I select the html of first three <p> tags in a <div> (or even four). I want to have a function where I could send the number of paragraphs and it would select their html into a variable? any help please.

Answer 1

You can use the lt() selector:

var t = $('p:lt('+n+')').text();

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/gzuvf/