jQuery - get the first class only from a element

Question

The element looks like this:

 ... 

jQuery.attr(\'class\') will return both classes.

Answer 1

You need to split that into an array:

console.log(jQuery('selector').attr('class').split(' ')[0]);

Answer 2

var first = jQuery.attr('class').split(" ")[0];

Answer 3

You can use the following to get the first class only from an element:

var firstClass = jQuery('selector')[0].classList[0]