Question

i have a doom tree like this:

ul #navigation
    li .active
    ul
        li.active_li
        li
        li
    /ul
    li
    ul
        li.active_li
        li
        li
    /ul
/ul

i would like to find the li with a class of active_li inside the ul belonging to the li that has a class of active. 🙂

as we can see there are 2 li with a class of active_li. i want only the first one

something like: $('#navigation').find('li.active').find('li.active)li').doSomething();

this selector doesn’t seem to work

any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this selector:

$('#navigation li.active ul li.active_li')
                         ^^
                          \_ You can get rid of this, as <li> elements
                             exist only within <ul> elements.