Question

I have a div (contenteditable="true") which contains some html. I’m trying to replace text in the entire div except in links with a certain class.

I tried:

$('div#text').not('a.selected').each(function() {
    $(this).html = replaceFunction($(this).text))
});

But it doesn’t replace anything.

Answer 1

Your selector will never return anything. You are saying “give the div with id=text where it is not an a element with class=selected”. Use .children() to get the children of the div.

.html and .text are methods. You can’t assign to them. They have overloads for getting and setting:
.html() will get the html.
.html(newhtml) will set the html.

You want something like this:

$('div#text').children().not('a.selected').each(function() {
    $(this).html(replaceFunction($(this).text()));
});