Question

got a row of elements:

<div class="container" id="box1">
<div class="container" id="box2">
<div class="container" id="box3">

how to select all of them without box2 ?
thought this would solve the problem,

var i =  "#box2";
$('.container:not(i)');

Answer 1

This

$('.container:not(i)');

should be

$('.container:not(' + i + ')');