List of items generated in HTML but parent and child items are assigned to the same class. How can I style the parent without affecting the child?

Hi all

I'm a self-taught beginner with a CSS question.

One of the plugin I’m using on my wordpress site generates a list of categories. The list looks something like this when viewed in the browser:

Parent item 1

• Child item 1.1

• Child items 1.2

Parent item 2

• Child item 2.1

• Child item 2.2

I would like to style this list so that the parent item is bolded. However I don’t see a way to do this in CSS because the way the plugin generates the HTML the parent item and child items have the exact same class.

<ul> <li category-item=”1” class=”x”> <a href=”#”>Parent item 1</a></li> <ul> <li category-item=”1.1” class=”x”> - < a href=”#”>Child item 1.1</a></li> <li category-item=”1.2” class=”x”> - < a href=”#”>Child item 1.2</a></li> </ul> <li category-item=”2” class=”x”> <a href=”#”>Parent item 2</a></li> <ul> <li category-item=”1.2” class=”x”> - < a href=”#”>Child item 2.1</a></li> <li category-item=”1.2” class=”x”> - < a href=”#”>Child item 2.2</a></li> </ul> </ul> 

Given that the parent items and child items have the same class, how can I can bold the parent item without affecting the child item?

In order to assign a different class to parent and child items I would have change the HTML, but the HTML is generated by the plugin so I presume that this would require me to do some PHP work in the plugin which is beyond my abilities.

Perhaps the fact that the child items is a new unordered listed nested in the main unordered list gives some kind of way to differentiate the parent and child?

Or perhaps the fact that the child items have a “-“ at the start gives us some clever way to differentiate them in the CSS?

Note - I will probably have lots of similar queries going forward so please tell me if this is not the most appropriate forum to post these?

Thanks in advance

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