Because "li a" is not a "filter" ;)
-- Yehuda
On 1/8/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay...
So then why wouldn't THIS work:
$('a').filter('li a').click( function() {
$(this).remove();
return false;
});
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Yehuda Katz
*Sent:* Monday, January 08, 2007 4:29 PM
*To:* jQuery Discussion.
*Subject:* Re: [jQuery] select links not children of li
.not(n) only works when n is a filter, like .not(".absolute") or
.not(":visible")... it can not be used to test arbitrary expressions.
-- Yehuda
On 1/8/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why doesn't this work:
>
> $('a').not('li a').click( function() {
> $(this).remove();
> return false;
> });
>
> On this code:
> <a href="">this is a link</a>
> <br /><br />
>
> <li><a href="">a link inside an li tag</a></li>
> <li><a href="">and another</a></li>
>
> <br /><br />
> <a href="">and finally another link at the bottom</a>
>
> It correctly removes the bottom and top links, but it also removes the
> two
> links found within LI tags, which from the way I read the API it should
> not.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Jörn Zaefferer
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:59 PM
> To: jQuery Discussion.
> Subject: Re: [jQuery] select links not children of li
>
> spinnach schrieb:
> > ..how to select all links on a page that are not inside a list (not
> > children of 'li')?..
> >
> Untested:
> $("a").filter(function() { return !$(this).parents().is("ul "); })
>
> Requires 1.1
>
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