Selecting First Child

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Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
    <ul>
      <li class="answer">Foo
        <ul>
          <li class="answer">Bar</li>
          <li class="answer">Moo</li>
          <li class="answer">Cat</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
</div>

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children() method
$('ul').children('.answer');
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:first-child sizzle
$('ul .answer:first-child');
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parent > child sizzle
$('ul > .answer');
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$($(".answer")[0]) nested
$($("ul .answer")[0]);
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$('ul').children('li');
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$($('ul').children('li')[0]);
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