On second thoughts, it looks like you want the div that contains the span but
without the span in it?
I think there is something wrong that your logic there, but depending on
what you want to do something like this might work for you:
$("div:has(span)").find("span").remove().end();
That will remove that span from the document, and leave you only with its
containing div...
duck! wrote:
>
> $("div:not(span)"); will return all the divs in the document that are not
> spans... all of them obviously
>
> You want all the divs that don't (:not()) contain (:has()) spans.
> $("div:not(:has(span))");
>
> hope this helps.
>
>
> jquertil wrote:
>>
>>
>> according to jquery documentation I should be able to select an
>> element that is NOT something, i.e. exclusion.
>>
>>
>> DOM:
>> <div>hello there, how are you?</div>
>>
>> JQUERY SELECTOR:
>> $('DIV :not(SPAN)')
>>
>> SHOULD RETURN:
>> <div>hello you?</div>
>>
>>
>> right? well, it's not happening for me... what am I dogin wrong?
>>
>>
>
>
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