You probably don't want the '#' character in there:
$("div:not("+pid+") form span").css("background-color","yellow");
On Jun 9, 11:45 am, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $("div:not(#"+pid+") form span").css("background-color","yellow");
>
> On Jun 9, 8:19 am, squalli2008 <m...@paskell.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Im trying to select all spans in divs containing forms that dont have
> > a certain id....
>
> > $("div:not([id='#'+pid]) form span").css("background-color",
> > "yellow");
>
> > This selects all spans regardless of the ID...... Any suggestions
> > would be great!
>
> > Thanks in advance...
