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CSS How to style an unordered list without styling another one nested within it

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leahsmith97

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Hi all,

This is my first time posting, so I hope I’m doing it correctly.... please bear with me.
I’m very new to coding, so this is probably a super easy question to answer, but it’s driving me nuts.

I have an <ul> nested within another <ul> I need to style the direct children of that FIRST list, but NOT the elements in the second unordered list.

As a part of the exercise I’m doing for my course, we need to place a bottom border under list items 1, 2, 3 but not under the two bullet points in the second . See photo attached for end goal.

I’ve tried everything. Closest I could get was using a child combinator...

This is the CSS I’ve tried:

[CODE lang="css" title="CSS I’ve tried"]ul > li {border-bottom: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: grey}[/CODE]

here is the code in the html (Exercise instructs not to change the html to accomplish what we need to do):

HTML: 
<ul class="list">
<li>One</li>
<li>Two
   <ul>
     <li>2.1</li>
     <li>2.2</li>
   </ul>
</li>
<li>Three</li>
</ul>

here is the end goal featuring the bottom border under 1, 2, and 3
image.webp
 
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Look at my last reply 😉. You were applying the styles to ALL <li> inside <ul>. The selector I wrote selects only the <li> that are directly inside a <ul> that is directly inside the element <body>.
 
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LTomy said:
What is the parent of the first <ul>? If it is <body>, you could change the selector for:
CSS: 
body > ul > li
{
}
Click to expand...
HTML: 
<div class="container">
    <h2>This is a heading</h2>
        <p>This paragraph comes after the heading.</p>
        <p>This is the second paragraph.</p>

        <h2>Another heading</h2>
        <p>This paragraph comes after the heading.</p>

        <ul class="list">
          <li>One</li>
          <li>Two
            <ul>
              <li>2.1</li>
              <li>2.2</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>Three</li>
        </ul>

  </div>
 
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