How to select penultimate (last but one) li element from the ul list in jQuery?

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$("li:last").prev("li").addClass("class-to-add")

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If there's only one list, just pass a negative index to the eq()^[docs] method.

$("ul li").eq(-2).addClass("extra");

Sounds like you're using an older version of jQuery.

Here's an example that shows it working in jQuery 1.3.2.

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$("ul li").last().prev().addClass("foo");

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