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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>First Child Pseudo-Selector</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
p:first-child { color: red;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>

<p>I should be red because I am the first child in the body.</p>
<p>I should not be red because I am the second child in the body.</p>

<div>
<p>I should be red because I am the first child of div.</p>
<p>Second child of div, thus not red.</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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