or simply $('#slide-images li:gt(0)').hide(); Later on you can get the last one with $('#slide-images li:last') (or last-child), or cache the collection.
On Dec 22, 8:25 pm, Dave Methvin <dave.meth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Untested, but I think this does it: > > function init(){ > LastPic = $('#slide-images li').slice(1).hide().length; > > } > > In jQuery there is probably a better way to do the rest of the code > than using a global variable for LastPic, but it depends on what the > rest of the code looks like.