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.first() and .last() methods for jQuery. I got fed up of expecting these to exist, so I wrote them as a couple of one-liner plugins.

Posted 16th January 2008 at 9:41 pm

2 comments

Better. Amend the eq() function to:
```
eq: function(i) {
  if (i < 0) i += this.size();
  return this.slice(i, i + 1);
}
```
then you can do .eq(0) instead of .first() and .eq(-1) instead of .last().

Dean Edwards - 17th January 2008 01:07 - #
Or something like that. :-)

The important thing is that jQuery's slice notation should be aware of negative indices throughout. Including get(), eq() etc.

Dean Edwardsg - 17th January 2008 01:19 - #