Skip recursion in jQuery.find() for a selector?

Question

TL;DR: How do I get an action like find(), but block traversal (not full stop, just skip) for a certain selector?

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Answer 1

Maybe something like this would work:

$.fn.findExclude = function (Selector, Mask) {
    var result = new jQuery();
    $(this).each(function () {
        var $selected = $(this);
        $selected.find(Selector).filter(function (index) {
            var $closest = $(this).closest(Mask);
            return $closest.length == 0 || $closest[0] == $selected[0] || $.contains($closest, $selected);
        }).each(function () {
            result.push(this);
        });
    });
    return result;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/JCA23/

Chooses those elements that are either not in mask parent or their closest mask parent is same as root or their closest mask parent is a parent of root.