How to select all links whose protocol is not http with jQuery?

Question

Suppose that you have:

<a href="file://...">link1</a>
<a href="file://...">link2</a>
<a href="http://..."&gt;link3&lt;/a&gt;
<a href="http://..."&gt;link4&lt;/a&gt;

What code should I use to select only link1 and link2 without using a[href^=http]?

Answer 1

That's exactly how you would do it:

$('a:not(a[href^=http])')

or

$('a[href^=file]')

What's wrong with selecting based on the href attribute?