css how to only make bold fonts for first set

Question

I have 2 or more

sets inside, and wants to only make first UL set to bold. in fact, this is a menu with multiple sub menus, and I

Answer 1

Use the first child selector: >

.menu > li {
    font-weight: bold;
}

Not that if you need to support IE6, you'll have to do it manually, as IE6 doesn't support the > selector:

.menu li a {
    font-weight: bold;
}
.menu li ul li a {
    font-weight: normal;
}