To select all child elements except the first with JavaScript, we can use jQuery with the not pseudo-selector to select all elements except the first element.
For instance, if we have the following HTML:
<ul>
<li>First item</li>
<li>Second item</li>
<li>Third item</li>
</ul>
and we want to select the last 2 li elements, then we can write:
$("li:not(:first-child)").addClass("something");
to get all the li’s that isn’t the first child of the ul element with li:not(:first-child) .
Then we can call addClass on all the selected elements to add the 'something' class to it.
We can also use the gt pseudo-selector to do the same thing.
For instance, we can write:
$("li:gt(0)").addClass("something");
gt(0) means we select every li but the first child.
We can also use the not method to do the same selection with:
$("li").not(':first').addClass("something");
not(‘:first’) also excludes the first child.
Conclusion
To select all child elements except the first with JavaScript, we can use jQuery with the not pseudo-selector to select all elements except the first element.
