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gsgx

Reputation: 12229

How to select all children except first and last with CSS selectors

How would I select all the children in a table except for the first and last? I've tried this, but it ends up selecting all children that aren't first and all children that aren't last, which ends up being all children:

table.programs tr td:not(:first-child), table.programs tr td:not(:last-child) {
}

I want all children that are neither first nor last. How can I do this?

Upvotes: 69

Views: 54298

Answers (5)

Icado
Icado

Reputation: 69

like this.

li:nth-child(n+2):nth-last-child(n+2) { background: red; }

for your requirement

table.programs tr td:nth-child(n+2):nth-last-child(n+2) { /* Your Style */ }

Upvotes: 4

Hossein Khalili
Hossein Khalili

Reputation: 173

It works in this way

    table.programs tr td:nth-child(1n+2):not(:last-child)

Upvotes: 1

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201508

Use two :not() selectors combined, thereby referring to elements that match both of them, i.e. to elements that match neither of the selectors used as operands of :not():

table.programs td:not(:first-child):not(:last-child)

Upvotes: 116

Simone
Simone

Reputation: 21262

The jQuery solution is fine, but if you want to do it in pure CSS I'd suggest you to apply the rules to the whole table and then reset them for the first and last children. i.e:

table.programs tr td { 
  /* your rules here */
}

table.programs tr:first-child td:first-child, 
table.programs tr:last-child td:last-child {
  /* reset your rules here */
}

jsFiddle demo

Upvotes: 6

Akhil F
Akhil F

Reputation: 7740

I think this should work for you:

table.programs tr td:not(:first-child,:last-child)

Upvotes: 2

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