jQuery skip first 3 elements and the last one

Question

I want to use unwrap but skip from applying this to the first 3 elements and from the last one also.. How can I do this? This is what I tried:

$(".top_link:gt(3)").not(":last").unwrap();

It doesn't seem to work.. What can I do? Thank you for any idea..

Answer 1

try this

$(".top_link:gt(2):not(:last)").unwrap();

Answer 2

This may be tricky but you can always count the number of .top_link and subtract one.

$(".top_link:gt(3):lt("+($(".top_link").length - 1)+")").unwrap();