Selecting by position using filters (Should know)
This recipe is the first that describes other types of selectors called filters. We've already seen some selectors that are based on the relation with other elements, but in this section we'll meet those that are under the filter category.
Getting ready
As the name suggests, these selectors work with other type of selectors, implicitly or explicitly like the attribute ones, to reduce further the set of matched elements. You can easily recognize them because they start with a semicolon sign (:). Some of them accept an argument that is passed inside the parentheses. The filters presented in this section help us by reducing elements based on their index inside the collection retrieved (not of the DOM) ...
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