Question

I have this code to capture all form inputs and it’s working, however, I’m trying to exclude those in a certain div that is a dropdown that is common to the jsp’s. I assigned the div to a class for this as a possible solution.

Here is the original working line of code:

$(':input', document.formName).change(function() { ...

then I use an if statement:

if($('.className:not(.selected)')){ 
do something ...

but the if statement isn’t right somehow. What is the best way to do this? Is there a way to combine everything in one statement or is the if block the right way and if so, what is the correct syntax to exclude a class?

Answer 1

You can use .not in your selector to exclude elements with the class .selected

$(':input', document.formName).not('.selected').change(function() { ...

or even

$(':input:not(".selected")', document.formName).change(function() { ...

Here’s a fiddle.