---
title: "Selection.first() | Grafana k6 documentation"
description: "Reduce the set of matched elements to the first in the set."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Selection.first()

Reduce the set of matched elements to the first in the set. Mimics [jquery.first](https://api.jquery.com/first/).

### Returns

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| Type                                                           | Description                         |
|----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| [Selection](/docs/k6/latest/javascript-api/k6-html/selection/) | The first element of the Selection. |

### Example

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```javascript
import { parseHTML } from 'k6/html';
import { sleep } from 'k6';

export default function () {
  const content = `
<dl>
  <dt id="term-1">term 1</dt>
  <dd>definition 1-a</dd>
  <dd>definition 1-b</dd>
  <dd>definition 1-c</dd>
  <dd>definition 1-d</dd>

  <dt id="term-2">term 2</dt>
  <dd>definition 2-a</dd>
  <dd>definition 2-b</dd>
  <dd>definition 2-c</dd>

  <dt id="term-3">term 3</dt>
  <dd>definition 3-a</dd>
  <dd>definition 3-b</dd>
</dl>
  `;
  const doc = parseHTML(content);

  const sel = doc.find('dt');

  console.log(sel.first().html());

  sleep(1);
}
```