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Hi could any one tel me what this style of selector is used for?

$("> div", "#main-content")

is it the same as

 $("div", "#main-content")

?

Not seen this style before and just stumbled on it in a template I just bought.

Answer 1

There are some great answers above. To specifically answer your question:

How the jQuery structure works:
$("tagToSelect", "context")
which can also be expressed as
$("context tagToSelect")

The “>” selects only tags immediately inside the context (one level deep)

So
$("> div", "#main-content")
is technically the same as
$("#main-content > div")
and will select all divs that are one level into #main-content (but no deeper)

Your other example:
$("div", "#main-content")
is technically the same as
$("#main-content div")
and will iterate through the entire DOM structure inside #main-content and find all divs

Hope this helps 🙂