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How to get nth jQuery element

I have this simple code:

<ul>
 <li>one</li>
 <li>two</li>
 <li>three</li>
</ul>

I know that my 2nd element should have a class active, how do I add this class?

this code won’t work:

$('ul li').get(1).addClass('active')

I assume it is becuase it returns a dom element and not jquery element. but how do I do it right?

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Of course 2nd element is an example. I need each time to change the active class from a variable called theActiveClassNumber

Answer 1

$("ul li:nth-child(2)").addClass('active')

or

$("ul li:eq(1)").addClass('active')