Handle child selectors in particular - away from the selector engine. Fixes #7029.

src/traversing.js

@@ -4,11 +4,17 @@ var runtil = /Until$/,
 	rparentsprev = /^(?:parents|prevUntil|prevAll)/,
 	// Note: This RegExp should be improved, or likely pulled from Sizzle
 	rmultiselector = /,/,
+	rchild = /^\s*>/,
 	isSimple = /^.[^:#\[\.,]*$/,
 	slice = Array.prototype.slice;
 
 jQuery.fn.extend({
 	find: function( selector ) {
+		// Handle "> div" child selectors and pass them to .children()
+		if ( typeof selector === "string" && rchild.test( selector ) ) {
+			return this.children( selector.replace( rchild, "" ) );
+		}
+
 		var ret = this.pushStack( "", "find", selector ), length = 0;
 
 		for ( var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++ ) {

test/unit/traversing.js

 module("traversing");
 
 test("find(String)", function() {
-	expect(2);
+	expect(3);
 	equals( 'Yahoo', jQuery('#foo').find('.blogTest').text(), 'Check for find' );
 
 	// using contents will get comments regular, text, and comment nodes
 	var j = jQuery("#nonnodes").contents();
 	equals( j.find("div").length, 0, "Check node,textnode,comment to find zero divs" );
+
+	same( jQuery("#main").find("> div").get(), q("foo", "moretests", "tabindex-tests", "liveHandlerOrder", "siblingTest"), "find child elements" );
 });
 
 test("is(String)", function() {