Target first level s and not the nested s

Question

I have the following HTML:

  
A
    

      
subsection
    
  
  
B
    <         


        

Answer 1

You could do this:

$('ul > li:not(:has(ul))');

But it would be better to give your top level

an ID so you can target it with a valid CSS selector:

$('#topUL > li')