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jQuery & jQuery UI

Attribute Not Equal Selector [name!="value"]

attributeNotEqual selector

version added: 1.0jQuery('[attribute!="value"]')

  • attribute
    An attribute name.
    value
    An attribute value. Quotes are mandatory.

Description: Select elements that either don't have the specified attribute, or do have the specified attribute but not with a certain value.

This selector is equivalent to :not([attr="value"]).

Additional Notes:

  • Because [name!="value"] is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using [name!="value"] cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. For better performance in modern browsers, use $("your-pure-css-selector").not('[name="value"]') instead.

Example:

Finds all inputs that don't have the name 'newsletter' and appends text to the span next to it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div>

    <input type="radio" name="newsletter" value="Hot Fuzz" />
    <span>name is newsletter</span>

  </div>
  <div>
    <input type="radio" value="Cold Fusion" />
    <span>no name</span>

  </div>
  <div>
    <input type="radio" name="accept" value="Evil Plans" />

    <span>name is accept</span>
  </div>
<script>$('input[name!="newsletter"]').next().append('<b>; not newsletter</b>');</script>

</body>
</html>