I've got the following html table :

<table id="jTable">

  <tr>
    <td>No</td>
    <td>Competition</td>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Adam</td>
    <td>Robert</td>
    <td>Paul</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>Swimming</td>
    <td>1:30</td>
    <td>2:05</td>
    <td>1:15</td>
    <td>1:41</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>Running</td>
    <td>15:30</td>
    <td>14:10</td>
    <td>15:45</td>
    <td>16:00</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>3</td>
    <td>Shooting</td>
    <td>70%</td>
    <td>55%</td>
    <td>90%</td>
    <td>88%</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>Total</td>
    <td>Blablabla</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>   </tr> 
</table>

What I'm trying to do is to hide all the rows except for the first, the before last and the last one. Here's how I'm doing :

$('#jTable').find('tr:gt(0):not(:last)').slideToggle();

This jQuery script only keeps the first and last row. Knowing the fact that I must use jQuery 1.7.1 (so I can't use the nth-last-child property), I was looking for a way to select the before last row.

I've got the following html table :

<table id="jTable">

  <tr>
    <td>No</td>
    <td>Competition</td>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Adam</td>
    <td>Robert</td>
    <td>Paul</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>Swimming</td>
    <td>1:30</td>
    <td>2:05</td>
    <td>1:15</td>
    <td>1:41</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>Running</td>
    <td>15:30</td>
    <td>14:10</td>
    <td>15:45</td>
    <td>16:00</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>3</td>
    <td>Shooting</td>
    <td>70%</td>
    <td>55%</td>
    <td>90%</td>
    <td>88%</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>Total</td>
    <td>Blablabla</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>   </tr> 
</table>

What I'm trying to do is to hide all the rows except for the first, the before last and the last one. Here's how I'm doing :

$('#jTable').find('tr:gt(0):not(:last)').slideToggle();

This jQuery script only keeps the first and last row. Knowing the fact that I must use jQuery 1.7.1 (so I can't use the nth-last-child property), I was looking for a way to select the before last row.

• javascript
• jquery
• html

• Only do $('#jTable tr:first').hide(); and $('#jTable tr:last').hide(); two times. on :last first time hides 1st last then 2nd last will be your last and hide that also. :D – Parth Trivedi Commented Jan 22, 2016 at 13:57

3 Answers 3

You can find the last and before last tr using eq() function like following.

var len = $('#jTable tr').length;
var first_row = $('#jTable tr').eq(0); 
var last_row = $('#jTable tr').eq(len - 1);
var before_last_row = $('#jTable tr').eq(len - 2);

Update

$('#jTable tr').not(first_row).not(last_row).not(before_last_row).slideToggle();

Take these into a function and try.

$(document).ready(function(){
 $('#jTable tr:first').slidetoggle()
 $('#jTable tr:last').slidetoggle()
 $('#jTable tr:last').prev().slidetoggle()
})

You do not need to use find()

$(document).ready(function(){
$("#jTable tr").not($("#jTable tr:first")).not($("#jTable tr:last").prev()).slideToggle();
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis./ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table id="jTable">

  <tr>
    <td>No</td>
    <td>Competition</td>
    <td>John</td>
    <td>Adam</td>
    <td>Robert</td>
    <td>Paul</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>Swimming</td>
    <td>1:30</td>
    <td>2:05</td>
    <td>1:15</td>
    <td>1:41</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>Running</td>
    <td>15:30</td>
    <td>14:10</td>
    <td>15:45</td>
    <td>16:00</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>3</td>
    <td>Shooting</td>
    <td>70%</td>
    <td>55%</td>
    <td>90%</td>
    <td>88%</td>   
    </tr>   <tr>
    <td>Total</td>
    <td>Blablabla</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>
    <td>1000</td>   </tr> 
</table>