Question

This is my jQuery code:

$('.ajax_modal a').not('.popup').live('click', function(e){

//do something

 });

When I click on the anchor a.popup, I would expect nothing to happen:

<div class="ajax_modal">
<a class="popup">Should do nothing</div>
<a class="something">Should do something<a>
</div>

Instead I get the following error which is breaking my page:

Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: .ajax_modal a.not(.popup)

Answer 1

.live() doesn’t work well with chained traversal methods.

Change that to

$('.ajax_modal a:.not(.popup)')