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jQuery parent > child Selector
The parent > child selector in jQuery is used to select all elements that are a direct child of the specified element.
Syntax
The syntax is as follows −
("parent > child")
Example
Let us now see an example to implement the jQuery parent > child selector −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("div > span").css("color", "red");
});
</script>
<style>
div {
border:1px solid black;
padding:10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Demo Heading</h2>
<div>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
<span>span outside p element</span>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
</div><br>
<div>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
<p>This is demo text. <span>span inside p element.</span></p>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output
This will produce the following output −

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