How to hide each item except first one?

Question

I have 3 divs called .pageSection, I have a jquery each that hides each item, but I do not want to hide the first item, how would I do this? I tried the following, still hads all items, no errors:

$('.pageSection').each(function(){
    if($(this).not(":eq(0)")){
         $(this).hide();
     }
});

Answer 1

No .each() needed. Use :gt() instead:

$('.pageSection:gt(0)').hide();