Selecting the last

Benchmark created by Eric on


Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
        <ul>
                <li class="answer">Foo</li>
                <li class="answer">Bar</li>
                <li class="answer">Moo</li>
                <li class="answer">Cat</li>
        <ul>
</div>

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Testing in
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last() method
$('.answer').last();
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:last sizzle
$('.answer:last');
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.eq(e.length-1) method
var e = $('.answer');
e.eq(e.length - 1);
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:eq(e.length-1) sizzle filter
var e = $('.answer');
e.filter(':eq(' + (e.length - 1) + ')');
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$(e[e.length-1]) nested jQuery object
var e = $('.answer');
$(e[e.length - 1]);
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