How to get the element before last?

Question

In Protractor, there is the .first() and .last() methods available on ElementArrayFinder:

var elements = element.all(by.css(".myclass"));

elements.last();
elements.first();

But, how to get the element just before the last one (penultimate) without knowing how many elements are there in total?

Ah, assumed you were using jQuery with the $, did not look at the tags. — epascarello, Jun 21 '16 at 01:04
@epascarello ah, sorry for the confusion. Protractor has `$$` shortcut as well. Replaced the shortcut with the full expression to avoid confusion. Thanks. — alecxe, Jun 21 '16 at 01:05

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21T01:48:21.990

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You can use negative indexing to get the elements from the end by index:

Negative indices are wrapped (i.e. -i means ith element from last)

elements.get(-2);  // the element before last

edited Jun 21 '16 at 01:48

answered Jun 21 '16 at 01:00

alecxe

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