Question

Say I’ve got something like:

Paragraph One
<br>
<br>
Paragraph Two
<br>
<br>
Paragraph Three
<br>
<br>
Paragraph Four
<br>
<br>
Paragraph n
<br>
<br>

Is there a jQuery selector that I should be using to target everything from Paragraph two to paragraph n? Once I figure out how to target those paragraphs, I want to set them to hidden.

EDIT: When I mention paragraphs above, I mean to say a paragraph block of text. Not using any p elements currently.

Answer 1

this is what the jquery .slice()
method was designed for.

Given a jQuery object that represents
a set of DOM elements, the .slice()
method constructs a new jQuery object
from a subset of the matching
elements. The supplied start index
identifies the position of one of the
elements in the set; if end is
omitted, all elements after this one
will be included in the result.

so

$('p').slice(3,6).addClass('the-class');
//note Zero Based indexing. Plus it wont include the last element.

live example:
http://jsfiddle.net/t9Nmy/

NOTE — addClass was to help visualize it, .hide(), .fadeOut(), etc may be what youre after

you could also combine the :gt() and :lt() selectors as follows

$('p:lt(6):gt(3)').addClass('the-class');

or just

$('p:gt(2)').hide()