jquery selector - exclude first and second

Question

I want to exclude first and second element from jquery selector. I tried this:

$(\'p:not(:nth-child(1),:nth-child(2))\')

But this only excludes

Answer 1

This jQuery sequence uses .slice() to discard the first two elements from the $('p') selector:

$('p').slice(2).

see http://jsfiddle.net/alnitak/zWV7Z/

Note that this is not the same as nth-child - the exclusion is based on the whole set of elements found in the first selector, and not on their relative position in the DOM.