“All but not” jQuery selector

Question

I can select (using jQuery) all the divs in a HTML markup as follows:

$(\'div\')

But I want to exclude a particular div (say h

Answer 1

var els = toArray(document.getElementsByTagName("div"));
els.splice(els.indexOf(document.getElementById("someId"), 1);

You could just do it the old fashioned way. No need for jQuery with something so simple.

Pro tips:

A set of dom elements is just an array, so use your favourite toArray method on a NodeList.

Adding elements to a set is just

set.push.apply(set, arrOfElements);

Removing an element from a set is

set.splice(set.indexOf(el), 1)

You can't easily remove multiple elements at once :(