Question

How do i select the third link to remove the right border? The first three are text links and I want to remove the right-border from the last text link. The last two are buttons. I don’t want the borders between or at the end of the buttons either. I can’t believe how much trouble I am having with this. Its probably a simple solution but it’s taking me forever to figure it out for browsers. Thanks.

Javascript

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
        $("ul.subnavigation li:nth-child(3)").addClass("last-child");
    });
        </script>

HTML

<ul class="subnavigation">
                <li><a href="$sign_in_url" id="Program" rel="nofollow" ></a>Program </li>
                <li><a href="$sign_in_url" id="About" rel="nofollow" >About </a> </li>
                <li><a href="$sign_in_url" id="faq" rel="nofollow" >How to/FAQs</a> </li>
                <li><a href="$sign_in_url" id="register" rel="nofollow" class="btn_register hide-text">Register</a> </li>
                <li><a href="$sign_in_url" id="signin" rel="nofollow" class="btn_signin hide-text">Sign in</a></li></ul>

CSS

ul.subnavigation {  
    font-family:Arial, sans-serif; 
    font-weight:bold; 
    font-size:16px;
    color:#333333; 
    list-style:none;
    }

.subnavigation li{
    display:inline;
    border-right:1px solid #ccc;
}

.subnavigation li:last-child{
    display:inline;
    border-right:0px;
}


.last-child {border:none;}

.subnavigation li a   {
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:0 10px 0 10px;
    line-height:18px;

    }

.subnavigation li a:hover {
    color:#2274ac;
    }


.subnavigation a.btn_register {
    background:url(../images/nt_btn-register.png) no-repeat;
    width:66px; 
    height:23px;
    display:inline-block;
    margin:0 5px 0 0;
    float:right;
    text-indent:-999px;
    }

.subnavigation a.btn_signin {
    background:url(../images/nt_btn-signin.png) no-repeat;
    width:56px; 
    height:23px;
    display:inline-block;
    margin:0 10px 0 5px;
    float:right;
    text-indent:-999px;
    }

.hide-text {
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

JS FIDDLE here

Answer 1

Change your css to be more specific

li.last-child {border-right:0px;}

then jQuery you can use .slice() to get li elements of index 2> to remove the right border

$(document).ready(function() {
   $("ul.subnavigation li").slice(2).addClass("last-child");
});​

http://jsfiddle.net/A46Ka/2/