Question

$('.comment').hide(2000);

This fades hides the class comment after two seconds. Is there an easy way to prevent a div with class “comment” from fading by adding an extra class?

<div class="comment">This text hides</div>
<div class="comment nohide">This text should not hide</div>

Adding the nohide class didn’t prevent it from hiding. I’ll probably end up creating a new class, but thought I’d ask.

Answer 1

You can use :not selector to filter elements:

$('.comment:not(.nohide)').hide(2000);​

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/M6zgw/