How to find <tr> inside <table> with depth 1?

Question

$(this).parents('table:first').find('tr'))

The above will search for tr inside table recursively,how to make it only search for the top tr?

EDIT

children is not working as expected：

alert($(this).parents('table:first').children('tr').length)

gives 0

Answer 1

$('table > tr')

This will find <tr> tags that are direct children of the table. If the rows are inside a tbody, you'd have to do this: $('table > tbody > tr')

Answer 2

$('table > tr') should work correctly. Or $('table').children('tr').

Answer 3

$(this).parents('table:first').find('> tbody > tr, > tr')

Will grab the table and then find all tr's that are direct children of tbody and those tr's that are direct children of the table.

Should work in both cases where the browser adds tbody and when the browser does not