Question

Do you know how to select elements which id DOES NOT contain a given string?
Or to select elements which id DOES NOT contain a given word?

Example:

<div id="my_div">
    <div id="tab_abcd">...</div>
    <div id="tab_efgh">...</div>
    <div id="tab_jklm">...</div>
    <div id="tab_nopq">...</div>
    <div id="tab_rstu">...</div>
    <div id="tab_vwxy">...</div>
</div>

I want to select the div that starts with “tab_” but doesn’t not finish with “nopq”. Cannot use nt-child because these div are generated dynamically: so, I don’t know the order.

Answer 1

$('[id^="tab"]:not([id$="nopq"])')

http://jsfiddle.net/zerkms/yB44A/