:first-child
Baseline Widely available *
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The:first-childCSSpseudo-class represents the first element among a group of sibling elements.
Try it
p { font-weight: bold;}li:first-child { border: 2px solid orange;}<p>Track & field champions:</p><ul> <li>Adhemar da Silva</li> <li>Wang Junxia</li> <li>Wilma Rudolph</li> <li>Babe Didrikson-Zaharias</li> <li>Betty Cuthbert</li> <li>Fanny Blankers-Koen</li> <li>Florence Griffith-Joyner</li> <li>Irena Szewinska</li> <li>Jackie Joyner-Kersee</li> <li>Shirley Strickland</li> <li>Carl Lewis</li> <li>Emil Zatopek</li> <li>Haile Gebrselassie</li> <li>Jesse Owens</li> <li>Jim Thorpe</li> <li>Paavo Nurmi</li> <li>Sergei Bubka</li> <li>Usain Bolt</li></ul>Syntax
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:first-child { /* ... */}Examples
Basic example
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<div> <p>This text is selected!</p> <p>This text isn't selected.</p></div><div> <h2>This text isn't selected: it's not a `p`.</h2> <p>This text isn't selected.</p></div>CSS
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p:first-child { color: lime; background-color: black; padding: 5px;}Result
Styling a list
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<ul> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li> <li> Item 3 <ul> <li>Item 3.1</li> <li>Item 3.2</li> <li>Item 3.3</li> </ul> </li></ul>CSS
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ul li { color: blue;}ul li:first-child { color: red; font-weight: bold;}Result
Specifications
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| Selectors Level 4 # first-child-pseudo |