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

Simply:

$('p:gt(1)')

http://api.jquery.com/gt-selector/

Demo http://jsfiddle.net/NtFYq/1/

As Alnitak has pointed out in the comment, if performance is a concern, you can use his solution of slice

Thanks a lot @Alnitak for pointing that out :)