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Set a context so a direct children of body is never selected with jQuery

Answer 1

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I'm not sure whether I understood the problem, but try using .not() on the result set

select = function(selector){return $(selector).not('#never-selected, #never-selected *')};

Rafael 2009-05-11 16:26:19

Answer 2

A:

You can write your own custom selector to parse out the stuff you want using any amount of jQuery necessary to grab those elements. Sometimes the selectors they provide by default can't do everything.

I can't think off the top of my head how to achieve what you are asking but you can do something like this:

jQuery.extend(jQuery.expr[':'],{
    everything_but: function(el,sel) {
        var everything = jQuery(el).clone();
        everything.find(sel).remove();
        return everything;
    }
});

I definitely can't say my implementation will work but it may give you an idea of how you can implement your own selector to achieve what you want.

It can be used as usual. Something like this:

var select = $('*:everything_but(#never-selected)')

Writing you own selector seems to be what you are trying to do with your scripts anyways. Good luck!

KyleFarris 2009-05-11 19:25:14

Answer 3

A:

Would perhaps creating a function that calls jQuery() with the arguments it passes and then automatically .filter()'s it might work?

function select() {
  var jquery = jQuery.apply(args);
  return jquery.filter(":not(#never-selected, #never-selected *");
}

Not sure that works - it was coded in the air.

gnarf 2009-05-11 19:59:06

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