Question

I tried to do it this:

$(this + ' li:not(:nth-last-child(2)):not(:last-child)').hide()

Full code sample:

$('.comments').each(function(){
    $(this + ' li:not(:nth-last-child(2)):not(:last-child)').hide()
    var template = $('#expand').html();
    $(this).prepend(template)
});

I need to run it as an “each”-function because I want to put in a conditional later.

Answer 1

Try this:

$('li:not(:nth-last-child(2)):not(:last-child)', this).hide();

From docs

jQuery( selector [, context] )

selector – A string containing a selector expression

context – A DOM Element, Document, or jQuery to use as context

So you can use this as context parameter:

$('.comments').each(function(){
    $('li:not(:nth-last-child(2)):not(:last-child)', this).hide()
    var template = $('#expand').html();
    $(this).prepend(template)
});