If you want to select the last child and need to be specific on the element type you can use the selector last-of-type
Here is an example:
$("div p:last-of-type").css("border", "3px solid red");
$("div span:last-of-type").css("border", "3px solid red");
<div id="example">
<p>This is paragraph 1</p>
<p>This is paragraph 2</p>
<span>This is paragraph 3</span>
<span>This is paragraph 4</span>
<p>This is paragraph 5</p>
</div>
In the example above both Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 5 will have a red border since Paragraph 5 is the last element of "p" type in the div and Paragraph 4 is the last "span" in the div.
jQuery 3.4.0 is deprecating :first, :last, :eq, :even, :odd, :lt, :gt,
and :nth. When we remove Sizzle, we’ll replace it with a small wrapper
around querySelectorAll, and it would be almost impossible to
reimplement these selectors without a larger selector engine.
We think this trade-off is worth it. Keep in mind we will still support the positional methods, such as .first, .last, and .eq. Anything you can do with positional selectors, you can do with positional methods instead. They perform better anyway.