Select nth-child across multiple parents
I have the following markup:
<div class="foo">
<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>three</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>four</li>
</ul>
</div>
I wish to style "one" and "three".
However, the markup could also be:
<div class="foo">
<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>four</li>
</ul>
</div>
I've tried using the following CSS:
.foo li:nth-child(1),
.foo li:nth-child(3)
{
color:red;
}
However, as expected, this is styling the first child of each ul
. (Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/hTfVu/)
How can I change my CSS so that I can target the 1st and 3rd li
belonging to .foo
?
You can't do that with CSS selectors alone. :nth-child()
and sibling combinators are limited to children/siblings sharing the same parent only, as implied by their names, and CSS selectors cannot account for such variations in parent-child structure, nor is there anything like an :nth-grandchild()
selector (even :nth-match()
from Selectors 4 limits itself to elements sharing the same parent only).
Of course with something like jQuery it becomes trivial: $('.foo li:eq(0), .foo li:eq(2)')
Otherwise you'll have to mark the first and third li
elements explicitly using classes or IDs, and then select them.