JQuery - get first class only from element

Question

The item is as follows:

<li class="blah active"> ... </li> 

jQuery.attr('class') will return both classes. How can I get only 1st class ('blah' in this case) with jQuery?

Answer 1

You need to split that into an array:

 console.log(jQuery('selector').attr('class').split(' ')[0]); 

Answer 2

 var first = jQuery.attr('class').split(" ")[0];