Question

I need to select elements of a certain class except children of $(this). The trick is no elements have an id attribute and the classes of parent and children elements are the same, so

<div class="onedoc">1
    <div class="onedoc">1.1
        <div class="onedoc">1.1.1</div>
    </div>
    <div class="onedoc">1.2</div>
</div>
<div class="onedoc">2</div>
<div class="onedoc">3</div>

in this example, if $(this) is 1 (the first element), I need to select elements containing 1.1.1, 2 and 3

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

$('.onedoc').not($(this).children());

DEMO