Child Selector ("parent > child")
Categories: Hierarchy
jQuery('parent > child')
Description: Selects all direct child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent".
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jQuery('parent > child')
version added: 1.0parent 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.
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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");