Question

How can I use jQuery to select an element only if it doesn’t have any classes?

I’m writing a page which allows the html author to override the default jQuery action by adding a class to the element. It should be any class at all.

So the markup might be:

<ul>
  <li class="override"></li>
  <li></li>
</ul>

I’d like jQuery to only select the second list element because it doesn’t have a class.

I’ve looked at .hasClass(), but it seems to require a specific class name.

Thanks!

Answer 1

:not() Selector – jQuery API

$('li:not([class])')