entries/child-selector.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<entry type="selector" name="child" return="">
  <title>Child Selector ("parent &gt; child")</title>
  <sample>parent &gt; child</sample>
  <signature>
    <added>1.0</added>
    <argument name="parent" type="Selector">
      <desc>Any valid selector.</desc>
    </argument>
    <argument name="child" type="Selector">
      <desc>A selector to filter the child elements.</desc>
    </argument>
  </signature>
  <desc>Selects all direct child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent".</desc>
  <longdesc>
    <p>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.</p>
    <p>The child combinator (E <strong>&gt;</strong> F) can be thought of as a more specific form of the descendant combinator (E F) in that it selects only first-level descendants.</p>
  </longdesc>
  <example>
    <desc>Places a border around all list items that are children of &lt;ul class="topnav"&gt; .</desc>
    <code><![CDATA[
$( "ul.topnav > li" ).css( "border", "3px double red" );
]]></code>
    <css><![CDATA[
  body {
    font-size: 14px;
  }
  ]]></css>
    <html><![CDATA[
<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>
]]></html>
  </example>
  <category slug="selectors/hierarchy-selectors"/>
  <category slug="version/1.0"/>
</entry>