Question

I want to select all the child elements of a parent element (except the first) with jQuery and I have the below..

$("li:not(:first-child)");

But I’m not sure how I can apply it to just the certain parent ID, would something like this work?

$('#myID').("li:not(:first-child)");

If so, I then want to add an element before the respective <li> tag. Would I then be able to do this with?

$('#myID').("li:not(:first-child)").before('<li>Test</li>');

I’m guessing something above is wrong as it isn’t working.

Answer 1

Close, just pass in the selector context:

$("li:not(:first-child)", "#myID")

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/

jQuery( selector [, context] )

selector: A string containing a selector expression

context: A DOM Element, Document, or jQuery to use as context

EDIT:
My initial answer assumed that you have no more li within the child’s li. if you strictly only wants to select the children, use >:

$("#myID > li:not(:first-child)")