Jquery Next/NextAll/NextUntil with count limit

Question

Its really annoying me that I don\'t know the answer to this, I thought it would be simple. I want to get the next and previous elements from a selected element to a limit (

Answer 1

You can use nextAll and prevAll combined with the less-than :lt(index) selector
(in your case :lt(2))

var current = $('.active'),
    next = current.nextAll(':lt(2)'),
    prev = current.prevAll(':lt(2)'),
    all = current.add(next).add(prev);