CSS-selector: "tag1 > tag2" works like "tag1 tag2". Bug in " > " parsing. Simply ">" works fine.

[cris]

Tested on last(4.92) version. Css-selector " > " with spaces around it work like simple " ". But in example on page http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotCssSearch used " > "-version:

doc.search("div.entryPermalink > a").
   prepend("<b>found you on the left</b>").
   append("<b>found you on the right</b>")

My non-working example:

>> doc.search("td[@class='det_l'][@bgcolor='#DADADA'] > img").size
=> 6
>> doc.search("td[@class='det_l'][@bgcolor='#DADADA']>img").size
=> 5
>> doc.search("td[@class='det_l'][@bgcolor='#DADADA'] img").size
=> 6

[arisbartee]

Your non-working example uses incorrect syntax.

The ">" character is used for CSS searches". Your example is an XPath search. try doc.search("td[@class='det_l',@bgcolor='#DADADA']/img")