[css] not:first-child selector

I have a div tag containing several ul tags.

I'm able to set CSS properties for the first ul tag only:

div ul:first-child {
    background-color: #900;
}

However, my following attempts to set CSS properties for each other ul tag except the first one don't work:

div ul:not:first-child {
    background-color: #900;
}

div ul:not(:first-child) {
    background-color: #900;
}

div ul:first-child:after {
    background-color: #900;
}

How can I write in CSS: "each element, except the first"?

li + li {
    background-color: red;
}

not(:first-child) does not seem to work anymore. At least with the more recent versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Instead, try this:

ul:not(:first-of-type) {}

This CSS2 solution ("any ul after another ul") works, too, and is supported by more browsers.

div ul + ul {
  background-color: #900;
}

Unlike :not and :nth-sibling, the adjacent sibling selector is supported by IE7+.

If you have JavaScript changes these properties after the page loads, you should look at some known bugs in the IE7 and IE8 implementations of this. See this link.

For any static web page, this should work perfectly.

As I used ul:not(:first-child) is a perfect solution.

div ul:not(:first-child) {
    background-color: #900;
}

Why is this a perfect because by using ul:not(:first-child), we can apply CSS on inner elements. Like li, img, span, a tags etc.

But when used others solutions:

div ul + ul {
  background-color: #900;
}

and

div li~li {
    color: red;
}

and

ul:not(:first-of-type) {}

and

div ul:nth-child(n+2) {
    background-color: #900;
}

These restrict only ul level CSS. Suppose we cannot apply CSS on li as `div ul + ul li'.

For inner level elements the first Solution works perfectly.

div ul:not(:first-child) li{
        background-color: #900;
    }

and so on ...

Since :not is not accepted by IE6-8, I would suggest you this:

div ul:nth-child(n+2) {
    background-color: #900;
}

So you pick every ul in its parent element except the first one.

Refer to Chris Coyer's "Useful :nth-child Recipes" article for more nth-child examples.

You can use your selector with :not like bellow you can use any selector inside the :not()

any_CSS_selector:not(any_other_CSS_selector){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}

you can use :not without parent selector as well.

   :not(:nth-child(2)){
        /*YOUR STYLE*/
   }

More examples

any_CSS_selector:not(:first-child){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:first-of-type){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:checked){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:last-child){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:last-of-type){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:first-of-type){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:nth-last-of-type(2)){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:nth-last-child(2)){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}
any_CSS_selector:not(:nth-child(2)){
    /*YOUR STYLE*/
}

You can use any selector with not

p:not(:first-child){}
p:not(:first-of-type){}
p:not(:checked){}
p:not(:last-child){}
p:not(:last-of-type){}
p:not(:first-of-type){}
p:not(:nth-last-of-type(2)){}
p:not(nth-last-child(2)){}
p:not(:nth-child(2)){}

I didn't have luck with some of the above,

This was the only one that actually worked for me

ul:not(:first-of-type) {}

This worked for me when I was trying to have the first button displayed on the page not be effected by a margin-left option.

this was the option I tried first but it didn't work

ul:not(:first-child)

div li~li {
    color: red;
}

Supports IE7