# Child Selector ("parent > child")

## child ( parent, child ) version added: 1.0

- parent
  Type: Selector
  Any valid selector.

- child
  Type: Selector
  A selector to filter the child elements.

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

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.

## Examples:

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

    <!doctype html>
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <title>css demo</title>

      <style>

      body {
        font-size: 14px;
      }

      </style>

      <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>

    <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>

    <script>

    $( "ul.topnav > li" ).css( "border", "3px double red" );

    </script>

    </body>
    </html>

#### Demo: