[jQuery] Re: selectors: selecting every element that is not children of another div

2008-02-25 Thread Klaus Hartl
Jean-Sébastien wrote: hi, i try to select every element that is not children of another div. i tried different ways but didn't find a solution. regards Try: $('body *').filter(function() { return this.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() != 'div'; }); Don't think that will perform very

[jQuery] Re: selectors: selecting every element that is not children of another div

2008-02-25 Thread Gordon
That would probably work but I wouldn't want to try it because I can't imagine any non-trivial page where it would complete this century. :) Then again I can't imagine why on Earth the OP would actually want to be doing this in the first place. Perhaps if you (the OP) can give us a description

[jQuery] Re: selectors: selecting every element that is not children of another div

2008-02-25 Thread Ariel Flesler
'*:not(div) *' or '*:not(div) *' if they must be direct descendants This is theoretically what you need, but won't work, it will also select the head, the body.. almost everything but the children of the divs. As gordon said, you should explain the situation. Ariel Flesler On 25 feb,