suppose you have a jQuery element called: div
div.children(":not(:first)").hide();
will hide every immediate child of the div, except the first one
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Stephan
2009/1/24 david.vansc...@gmail.com <david.vansc...@gmail.com>:
>
> Yeah, I figured it was probably something along those lines. So what
> would be the best way to hide all but the first element of a DIV?
>
>
> David
>
> On Jan 23, 11:12 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I suspect the unordered lists aren't being hidden because the browser
>> will not recognize that they are within the paragraph.
>>
>> Paragraphs are not allowed to have any block-level elements inside of
>> them:
>>
>> > The P element represents a paragraph. It cannot contain block-level
>> > elements (including P itself).
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/text.html#h-9.3.1
>>
>> When you have an invalid DOM structure, script goofiness happens.
>>
>> --Karl
>>
>> ____________
>> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:46 PM, david.vansc...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > The answer to this is probably really simple, but I'm just not finding
>> > it.
>>
>> > I'm working on a newsletter and they want the first paragraph of each
>> > article shown, then a More link at the end. Got that working fine. I
>> > even have it working so that it automatically hides all but the first
>> > paragraph tag. Perfect. However, I have a few unordered lists inside
>> > paragraph tags and the unordered lists aren't hidden when the page
>> > loads, even if they're inside the paragraph tags. How would I get
>> > those elements to be hidden when the paragraph tag is hidden? Thanks!
