Finding previous sibling for criteria

by markallgood

HTML

<ul>
    <li class="pick-me">one</li>
    <li class="pick-me">two</li>
    <li>three</li>
    <li>four</li>
    <li class="pick-me">five</li>
    <li class="pick-me hide">six</li>
    <li>seven</li>
    <li class="start">eight</li>
</ul>

JavaScript

var x = $("li.start").prevAll("li.pick-me:not(.hide):first").css("color", "red");
//alert(x.text());