Question

I’m writing a backbone app, and using the built-in event handling, which uses jquery selectors.

I’d like to write a selector which will select everything except the .delete below, and then a selector for .delete exclusively (which is a lot simpler.)

Basically, I’d like to select everything in the parent except this one specific child.

I tried li:not(.delete), but that didn’t work. Any ideas?

<li class="">
  <a href="#">
    <i class="icon-book"></i>
    <span class="name">@randallb</span>
    <i class="delete icon-remove-sign pull-right"></i>
  </a>
</li>

Answer 1

Try this:

$('li > a *:not(.delete)')