Question

I would like to select all elements, for example a tags

$('a').blabla();

But I don’t want to have selected those that are deeply inside of div with id theChosenOne so #theChosenOne>a wont work because a tags can be deeply inside of this div surrounded by tons of other tags…

Is there some possibility how to solve this? The way I would appreciate the most is using :not

Answer 1

My first thoughts are:

$('a').not('#theChosenOne a');

Or

$('a').filter(
    function(){
        if (!$(this).closest('#theChosenOne')){
            return $(this);
        }
    });