This might sound naive, but I expected this to work: $(this).nextAll('a').andSelf().removeClass ('star_selected').triggerHandler('mouseout');
It's from a star rating I wrote, where I have 5 <a> tags in a row. If you click on one it removes a class from it and all that follow it, and then fires the mouseout event. This works perfectly for stars 1-4, but fails on #5, because there is no next. But I did not expect it to ignore the rest of the chain. Everything after .nextAll is ignored. If I break this into two lines, it works fine: $(this).nextAll('a').removeClass('star_selected'); $(this).removeClass('star_selected').triggerHandler('mouseout'); But I am repeating myself with the removeClass. Can anyone see a way to combine these back into one statement? The mouseout has to go last. Michael