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HTML

<ul>
  <li>list item 1</li>
  <li>list item 2</li>
  <li>list item 3</li>
  <li>list item 4</li>
  <li>list item 5</li>
</ul>

JavaScript

$('li:eq(1)').css('color', 'blue');
$('li').eq(2).css('color', 'red');