Getting a range of elements in one jQuery selector

Question

My problem is that I have a table, but I only want a subset of the rows, from first index to last index. I thought you could do it like this:

$(\'table tr:gt         


        

Answer 1

You're pretty close, but the problem in your selector is the :lt(5) filter.

You would want something like:

$('table tr:gt(2):lt(2)');

The difference is that by the time the lt() filter is applied, the first three elements were already removed from the set (by the gt() filter). So this will grab the 3rd and 4th element (zero-indexed), instead of the 3rd through the 8th.