Руководство jQuery

<table border="1">
    <tr><td>TD #0</td><td>TD #1</td><td>TD #2</td></tr>
    <tr><td>TD #3</td><td>TD #4</td><td>TD #5</td></tr>
    <tr><td>TD #6</td><td>TD #7</td><td>TD #8</td></tr>
  </table>

"Живой пример jQuery"

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
						"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
	<html>
	<head>
	<link href="http://test-drupal.ru/themes/slyweb/css/jqueryiframe.css" 
	rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
	  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	  $(document).ready(function(){
	
$("td:lt(4)").css("color", "red");

	  });
	</script>

	</head>
	<body class="iframe">

	
<table border="1">
    <tr><td>TD #0</td><td>TD #1</td><td>TD #2</td></tr>
    <tr><td>TD #3</td><td>TD #4</td><td>TD #5</td></tr>
    <tr><td>TD #6</td><td>TD #7</td><td>TD #8</td></tr>
  </table>


	</body>
	</html>

Метод появился в jQuery 1.0 (http://api.jquery.com/lt/)

Версия jQuery 1.4.2 Документ создан 2010-08-21