jquery selector before-last

Question

I have a dynamic list and need to select the before last item.

    

    
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Answer 1

Probably a neater way but how about:

var lastLiId = $(".album li:last").prev("li").attr("id");

Answer 2

You can use .eq() with a negative value (-1 is last) to get n from the end, like this:

$(".album li").eq(-2).attr("id"); // gets "li-9"

You can test it here.