jQuery filtering selector to remove nested elements matching pattern

Question

Given this sample markup (assuming a random number of elements between .outer and .inner:

Answer 1

Here's another option. Suppose you have the .outer o, this will select all inners under it:

o.find('.inner').not(o.find('.outer .inner'))

It should work identically to gnarf's answer, but a bit simpler.

First, it finds all inners under this outer.
Next, remove all inners that are descendants of other outers

Interactive working example: http://jsfiddle.net/Zb9gF/

Selector performance seems to be much better using this method as opposed to the .filter() as well: http://jsperf.com/selector-test-find-not