Question

I want to select all items which are in one class and NOT in a set of other classes. For the first step, I imagined something like this would work, but didn’t:

$('.class1,!.class2')

What I actually have is a list of classes that I don’t want to select:

dont_select = ['class2', 'class3', 'class4']

And I want to select all items which have class1 but not any class in my array of classes in dont_select (which varies in length). Thanks,

Answer 1

Try this:

$(".class1").not("." + dont_select.join(",.") );