Question

If you want to select the first element or :not, there are several choices:

• :not(:first)
• :nth-child(1)
• first()
• :first-child
• etc…

What are the options for selecting the first ‘two, three, and X’ elements?

AND

:not(the first two, three, and X?)
can the :not() be accomplished by using the JS !

Answer 1

If the elements you want to exclude follow consecutively, you could use slice():

$(selector).slice(0,3);

JS Fiddle demo.

This will select the first three elements, the 0 is the zero-based index of the first element to start, and the second, the 3, is the zero-based index of the element at which to stop, collecting.

The second number can also be a negative number and, if so, will count from the end of the returned set of elements:

$(selector).slice(1,-3);

JS Fiddle demo.

References:

• slice().