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Asked: 2026-05-26T00:01:58+00:00

Hi this is my problem: <ul> <li><span class=show>*</span>Show</li> <li><span class=show>*</span>Show</li> <li><span class=show>*</span>Show</li> <li><span class=show>*</span>Show</li>

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Hi this is my problem:

<ul>
   <li><span class="show">*</span>Show</li>
   <li><span class="show">*</span>Show</li>
   <li><span class="show">*</span>Show</li>
   <li><span class="show">*</span>Show</li>
   <li>Hide</li>
   <li>Hide</li>
</ul>

So oposite of this http://jsfiddle.net/ajitam/GqCpW/

How can I select (with jQuery) ‘li’s without span.show inside.

thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    Selector should look like this:

    $('ul li:not(:has(span.show))')

    Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Mkj7Z/

    Since such a selector is pretty expensive, make sure you cache the resulting DOM nodes in a variable for further access.

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