jQuery - How to select all checkboxes EXCEPT a specific one?

Question

I have a jQuery selector that looks like this ...

$(\"input:checkbox\").click(function(event) {
  // DO STUFF HERE
}

Everything was working

Answer 1

Well.. we need to know more about the HTML for a specific answer, but there are two methods that I can think of.

1) if you know the name of the one that you don't want then remove that one with not

$("input:checkbox").not('#the_new_checkbox_id').click(function(event) {
  // DO STUFF HERE
}

2) use something that the correct inputs have in common to select them.

$("input:checkbox[name=whatItIsNamed]").click(function(event) {
  // DO STUFF HERE
}