How do I get first element rather than using 0 in jQuery

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I m new to jQuery  apologies if this is a silly question   When I use it find an element using the id  I know theres always one match and in order to access it I would use the index  0   Is there a better way of doing this  For e g   var gridHeader       grid GridHeader   0

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You can use the first method      li   first     http   api jquery com first   btw I agree with Nick Craver -- use document getElementById

User · Answer

You can use the first selector   var header       header first

User · Answer

grid GridHeader first   works as well

User · Answer

You can use  get 0  as well but   you shouldn t need to do that with an element found by ID  that should always be unique   I m hoping this is just an oversight in the example   if this is the case on your actual page  you ll need to fix it so your IDs are unique  and use a class  or another attribute  instead    get    like  0   gets the DOM element  if you want a jQuery object use  eq 0  or  first   instead

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http   api jquery com eq       grid GridHeader   eq 0

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With the assumption that there s only one element        grid GridHeader   0       grid GridHeader   get 0       grid GridHeader   get        are all equivalent  returning the single underlying element   From the jQuery source code  you can see that get 0   under the covers  essentially does the same thing as the  0  approach       Return just the object    num  lt  0   this slice num   0     this  num

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You can try like this   yourArray shift

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