jQuery “not contains” selector

Question

The :contains() jQuery selector allows you to match find elements that contain a specified string of text. What I want to do seems related: I\'m providing the user a \"filt

Answer 1

Let say that you want the list of all <td> that dont contains string 'Dinesh'.(assuming Dinesh is inside name Attribute)

$('tableId > tbody > tr > td').not("[name*='Dinesh']")

Answer 2

Use this:

$("div:not(:contains('John'))").css("text-decoration", "underline");

Answer 3

Assuming your user's text is stored in a variable called userString:

$(':not(:contains('+ userString +'))').hide(); 

will hide all of the elements not containing that string.

Edit: If you have control over the elements in the list items, you could transform the user's text when you store it in the userString var.