I expanded my demo page to show the different possibilities. http://www.commadot.com/jquery/selectors/
John/Gordon, your code doesn't seem to find the grandchildren. This one just was itching at my mind, but I think I found the perfect selector: $("#container *").not(".notme") //notice the * Im not sure why children() didnt pick up the grandkids. Tested in FF/IE7 Glen On 7/4/07, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
$("#container").children ().not(".class2") On Jul 3, 11:02 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to be able to select all elements in a container except > element.class2 for example, is that possible? > > Thanks... haven't found any docs on this!