Most appropriate way to select first occurrence of a child element in jQuery

Question

I have a list like so:

<ul id="topElement">
  <li></li>
  <li>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <ul>
          <li>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  <li>

Using jQuery, what is the best aka most efficient way to reference the first occurrence of a ul from #topElement.

That is to say, I do not want this...

$("#topElement ul") 

Which will return every ul element in the tree. I only want the first ul down.

Thanks,

Answer 1

$("ul#topElement:first") 

Answer 2

I think that if you want the first "ul" you find inside the contents of the "ul" called "topElement", then you'd want this:

$('ul#topElement ul:first')

Answer 3

$("#topElement > li > ul:first")

Answer 4

$("#topElement ul").first();