Question

I’m trying to filter a list of elements via ‘:not()’, and jQuery seems to be ignoring my filter.

here is the code:

myElements.filter(':not(.someclass)');

jquery still selects all of myElements…

Answer 1

myElements = myElements.filter(":not(.someClass)");
myElements.hide();

or:

myElements = myElements.not(".someClass");
myElements.hide();

You will actually need to assign the filtered collection to a variable to capture the modified (filtered) collection, otherwise you are effectively just referencing myElements in its initial state. If you don’t want to do that, you can always use chaining, for example:

myElements.filter(":not(.someClass)")
          .hide();