Selecting the first "n" items with jQuery

Question

With Jquery, I need to select just the first "n" items from the page, for example the first 20 links instead of selecting all of them with the usual

$("a")

Sounds simple but the jQuery manual has no evidence of something like this.

Answer 1

Use lt pseudo selector:

$("a:lt(n)")

This matches the elements before the nth one (the nth element excluded). Numbering starts from 0.

Answer 2

$("a:lt(n)")

JQuery Documentation

Answer 3

Try the :lt selector: http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/lt#index

$('a:lt(20)');

Answer 4

You probably want to read up on slice. You code will something like this:

$("a").slice(0,20)