title: Jquery Pagination only show prev and next
body: <p>I am using Jquery to paginate some divs on my page. At the moment the pagination shows as:</p>
  
  <p>prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next</p>
  
  <p>How can I customize it to only show a previous and next button: prev next ?????</p>
  
  <p>CODE:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// JavaScript Document
  $(document).ready(function(){
  
      //how much items per page to show
      var show_per_page = 5;
      //getting the amount of elements inside content div
      var number_of_items = $('#paginationcontent').children().size();
      //calculate the number of pages we are going to have
      var number_of_pages = Math.ceil(number_of_items/show_per_page);
  
      //set the value of our hidden input fields
      $('#current_page').val(0);
      $('#show_per_page').val(show_per_page);
  
      //now when we got all we need for the navigation let's make it '
  
      /*
      what are we going to have in the navigation?
          - link to previous page
          - links to specific pages
          - link to next page
      */
      var navigation_html = '&lt;a class="previous_link" href="javascript:previous();"&gt;Prev&lt;/a&gt;';
      var current_link = 0;
      while(number_of_pages &gt; current_link){
          navigation_html += '&lt;a class="page_link" href="javascript:go_to_page(' + current_link +')" longdesc="' + current_link +'"&gt;'+ (current_link + 1) +'&lt;/a&gt;';
          current_link++;
      }
      navigation_html += '&lt;a class="next_link" href="javascript:next();"&gt;Next&lt;/a&gt;';
  
      $('#page_navigation').html(navigation_html);
  
      //add active_page class to the first page link
      $('#page_navigation .page_link:first').addClass('active_page');
  
      //hide all the elements inside content div
      $('#paginationcontent').children().css('display', 'none');
  
      //and show the first n (show_per_page) elements
      $('#paginationcontent').children().slice(0, show_per_page).css('display', 'block');
  
  });
  
  function previous(){
  
      new_page = parseInt($('#current_page').val()) - 1;
      //if there is an item before the current active link run the function
      if($('.active_page').prev('.page_link').length==true){
          go_to_page(new_page);
      }
  
  }
  
  function next(){
      new_page = parseInt($('#current_page').val()) + 1;
      //if there is an item after the current active link run the function
      if($('.active_page').next('.page_link').length==true){
          go_to_page(new_page);
      }
  
  }
  function go_to_page(page_num){
      //get the number of items shown per page
      var show_per_page = parseInt($('#show_per_page').val());
  
      //get the element number where to start the slice from
      start_from = page_num * show_per_page;
  
      //get the element number where to end the slice
      end_on = start_from + show_per_page;
  
      //hide all children elements of content div, get specific items and show them
      $('#paginationcontent').children().css('display', 'none').slice(start_from, end_on).css('display', 'block');
  
      /*get the page link that has longdesc attribute of the current page and add active_page class to it
      and remove that class from previously active page link*/
      $('.page_link[longdesc=' + page_num +']').addClass('active_page').siblings('.active_page').removeClass('active_page');
  
      //update the current page input field
      $('#current_page').val(page_num);
  } 
  </code></pre>