Excellent, Dave. Your explanation is much appreciated. I'd tried something
similar in my 'period of frustration', but didn't know about the []'s
denoting descendents.
dave.methvin wrote:
>
>> What I'm trying to achieve is the element with id="save-search" only
>> gets hidden if it does not contain a div with the class="error-message"
>
> How about this?
>
> $("#save-search:not([div.error-message])").hide();
>
> It actually reads very much like the sentence above, once you know what
> all
> the syntax means:
>
> #save-search // select an element with id=save-search
> :not( // as long as the following is not found:
> [ // descendent elements containing
> div // a div
> .error-message // with class error-message
> ])
>
> Notice that it's _very_ important to put the :not right after the id name.
> If there was a space after the id it would select _descendants_ of
> #save-search that do not contain div.error-message.
>
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