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I need to get the last class of an element, is there a simple way?

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I need to verify if a class has been added to a certain element without knowing which... How can I get the last class setted on a DOM element?

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In jQuery $(element).attr("class") returns the list of all classes of the element as string space-delimited; you can set an array by splitting this string by " " and get last:

var lastElClass = $(element).attr("class").split("").slice(-1);

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