Question

Is it possible to remove the attribute of the first HTML <div> tag? So, this:

<div style="display: none; ">aaa</div>

becomes

<div>aaa</div>

from the following:

<div style="display: none; ">aaa</div>
<a href="#" style="display: none; ">(bbb)</a>
<span style="display: none; ">ccc</span>​

Answer 1

To remvove it from literally the first element use .removeAttr():

$(":first").removeAttr("style");

or in this case .show() will show the element by removing the display property:

$(":first").show();

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Though you probably want to narrow it down to inside something else, for example:

$("#container :first").removeAttr("style");

If you want to show the first hidden one, use :hidden as your selector:

$(":hidden:first").show();