How to get first letter from string using jquery

Question

(This question already has answers here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18887742/how-to-get-first-letter-from-string-using-jquery

Answer 1

Try with charAt(0) like

var header = $('.time'+col).text();
alert(header.charAt(0));

You can also use substring like

alert(header.substring(1));

And as @Jai said you can use slice also like

alert(header.slice(0,1));