I believe that it's: $('.shiny:first')
-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Jordan Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:18 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Can I select just one? Hi folks, I've not really had a need to do this before, but is it possible to tell jQuery that when doing a selection I just want the first one found? I know that I can reference the zeroth element in the array of matches. As it happens, right now I've got a need to just get the first occurance of x, and instead of returning all of them, I'd like to just return the first one. Any thoughts? Chris