Description

The Child selector selects all direct child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent" .

The child combinator (E > F) only selects first-level descendants.

v1.0

This selector has the form:

$("parent > child")

The Descendant selector selects all elements that are descendants of a given ancestor.

A descendant of an element could be a child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so on, of that element.

v1.0

This selector has the form:

$("ancestor descendant")