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Child Selector ("parent > child")

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jQuery('parent > child')

Description: Selects all direct child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent".

  • jQuery('parent > child')

    version added: 1.0

    parent   Any valid selector.

    child   A selector to filter the child elements.

As a CSS selector, the child combinator is supported by all modern web browsers including Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 7 and above, but notably not by Internet Explorer versions 6 and below. However, in jQuery, this selector (along with all others) works across all supported browsers, including IE6.

The child combinator (E > F) can be thought of as a more specific form of the descendant combinator (E F) in that it selects only first-level descendants.

Note: The $("> elem", context) selector will be deprecated in a future release. Its usage is thus discouraged in lieu of using alternative selectors.

  • Places a border around all list items that are children of <ul class="topnav"> .

    HTML:
    
                        
    <ul class="topnav">
        <li>Item 1</li>
        <li>Item 2 
            <ul><li>Nested item 1</li><li>Nested item 2</li><li>Nested item 3</li></ul>
           </li>
        <li>Item 3</li>
    </ul>
    
    CSS:
    
    body { font-size:14px; }
    
    Code:
    $("ul.topnav > li").css("border", "3px double red");