Question

Is it possible to run a jQuery .each statement a certain amount of times rather then for each of the items being iterated? The JSON being iterated is a last.fm feed, and of course, they ignore the “limit” request often. I would like to bypass this error by only running the .each statement so many times.

Answer 1

var limit = 5;

$("somelement").each(function(i, val) {
      if(i > limit) return false;
      // do stuff
});

or

$("somelement:lt(5)").each(function() {
      // do stuff
});