Question

I need to select all <option> tags (.just_added select option) that aren’t selected with jQuery.

This is what I got so far…

$('.just_added select option:selected');

The problem is that it selects all <option> tags that are selected, but I need to select all <option> tags that aren’t selected.

Any ideas? Thanks in advice!

Answer 1

You can use :not ^[docs]:

$('.just_added select option:not(:selected)');

Or without jQuery pseudo selectors (using the .not() ^[docs] method):

 $('.just_added select option').not(function() {
     return this.selected;
 });