Question

I have an unordered list as follows:

<ul id="menu">
    <li><a href="#">Event Overview</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">About</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>

    <li><a href="#">Blog</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>

    <li><a href="#">Contact</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Some Text Here</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>

</ul>

I need to select all of the parent list items, but not the children list items. For instance, I need to select The list items that contains “event overview” but not the list items that contain “some text here”.

Typically, my selector would be as follows #menu-nav li but this selects all list items, including children.

What is the proper selector for this?

Answer 1

The Child Selector (cue angels singing):

#menu > li

It will only select the li elements that are direct children of #menu.