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Asked: 2026-06-11T17:13:33+00:00

I’m a noob at Jquery so forgive me if this is ridiculous, but does

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I’m a noob at Jquery so forgive me if this is ridiculous, but does get() and [] break the method chain ? I’m attempting to retrieve a single element from a returned Jquery Object :

<HTML>

<HEAD><TITLE>A test page</TITLE></HEAD>



<BODY>

<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is a second paragraph</p>

</BODY>


</HTML>


<script type="text/javascript"    src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

var x = $("p").get(1).text();       //This doesn't work       

var y = $($("p").get(1)).text();    //re-wrapping the result does however. 


</script>

If this is the case, how do I more succinctly retrieve a designated value, because at the moment the approach I’m using above is a little clunky to say the least.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, it breaks, get converts the jQuery object to a DOM Element object then you cannot use jQuery methods on the selected elements, you can use eq() method instead:

    var x = $("p").eq(1).text();

    or :eq() selector:

    var x = $("p:eq(1)").text();

    Note that get and eq methods are zero-based, eq(1) selects the second element.

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