I'll try to pull out the time later to write a more thorough response, but for now this is how you would code than line your pasted:
$("label").not(":contains(' ')") ~Sean On 9/4/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone have any input on this? Surely someone has written a tute on > these semi-confusing methods. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen some of you jQuery masters bust out with these amazing > chains, but I can't quite grasp how some of them are crafted. I've > looked through the methods and found a few that I think should work in > a specific instance, but then they don't. So what I'm wondering is if > anyone has already taken some time and writen up a quick tutorial on > thefiltering/limiting methods biult into jQuery. > > I'm specifically looking for help on these: > not() > filter() > is() > > A perfect example is a situation I had earlier today. I have a series > of tags, some of which contain real values, the others containing an > . I thought I could just use not() and remove the items which > did not have an like so: > > $('label').html().not(' '); > > But that didn't work. So I'm wanting to learn HOW I can do this sort > of thing and a tutorial on these methods would help immensely. > >