Getting first visible element with jQuery
jquery, jquery-selectors
Solution
Try using this:
$('ul').find('li:visible:first').css('background','blue');
Currently your code is just getting the first visible `li` element on the page and setting the background colour. This code selects all `ul` elements then finds the first visible `li` within each of them and applies the style.
Here it is working: http://jsfiddle.net/FAY9q/5/
Problem
Trying to get the first visible element of a list using jQuery's `:first` and `:visible` pseudo-selectors, as suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/830611/165673 but it's not working: Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/FAY9q/4/ HTML: ``` <ul> <li>Item A</li> <li>Item B</li> <li>Item C</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="display:none;">Item A</li> <li>Item B</li> <li>Item C</li> </ul> ``` JQUERY: ``` $('li:visible:first').css('background','blue'); ``` The first item in each list should turn blue...