Question

A number of HTML elements (p, a, span, etc.) in my page have a ‘title’ attribute. In order to call a method on such elements (that styles their titles), I can do the following:

$('[title]').method();

Now I need to prevent this from being called for all DIVs whose ID start with a specific string , say ‘myDiv‘.
I bet there is a special jquery selector syntax for doing that, but am just not able to get that.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

try this

$('[title]:not(div[id^="mydiv"])').method()

Documentation Attribute Starts With Selector

Documentation :not() Selector

update: you can also do it as

$('[title]').not('div[id^="mydiv"])').method()

Documentation .not( selector )