How to select the first child element with CSS
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Problem: in my markdown file I had the need to style the first ul, the table of contents, and I couldn’t add a class or an id to target it with CSS.
So I looked into how to target it with a selector.
The HTML structure was this:
<div id="content">
<ul>
...the TOC
</ul>
...rest of the HTML
</div>This worked to select the first child of div#content and leave other ul elements unaffected:
div#content > ul:first-of-type {
...my styles
}
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