querySelector with nested nth-child in Chrome doesn't appear to work

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I've been looking at using nth-child within an nth-child selector to find an element. This appears to work in Firefox, but does not seem to be working on chrome. Here's my test file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>untitled</title>
    <!--[if IE]>
        <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        myFunc = function() {
            if(document.querySelector('#wonderful DIV:nth-child(2) DIV:nth-child(2)')) {
                alert("found the element");
            } else {
                alert("element not found");
            }
        };
    </script>
</head>
<body onLoad="myFunc()">

    <div id="wonderful">
       <div>
       </div>
       <div >
           <div>
           </div>
           <div class="blue">
               find me!
           </div>
       </div>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

Has anyone else seen this issue? Have a solution to get around this?

google-chrome css-selectors css
2 Answers

Found this (very old) question while hunting down a red herring. This answer is to note: today, Chrome v73 works just fine. Snippet here proves it:

const sel = '#wonderful div:nth-child(2) div:nth-child(2)';
console.log(document.querySelector(sel))
 <div id="wonderful">
    <div></div>
    <div>
       <div></div>
       <div class="blue">find me!</div>
    </div>
 </div>

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