Style first level of menu only

Question

To style the first level of a menu i would think this code would work:

http://jsfiddle.net/2g36L/1/

Could someone please point out where I'm going wrong, thanks.

Answer 1

It does, but since you've given no other color to the other elements they inherit the color you gave the top <ul> element. If you give the other <ul> a color, it works fine.

jsFiddle example.