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Attribute Not Equal Selector [attribute!="value"]

Categories: Attribute | jQuery Extensions

jQuery('[attribute!="value"]')

Description: Select elements that either don't have the specified attribute, or do have the specified attribute but not with a certain value.

  • jQuery('[attribute!="value"]')

    version added: 1.0

    attribute   An attribute name.

    value   An attribute value. Can be either an unquoted single word or a quoted string.

This selector is equivalent to :not([attr="value"]).

Note:

Because [name!="value"] is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using [name!="value"] cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. For better performance in modern browsers, use $("your-pure-css-selector").not('[name="value"]') instead.
  • Finds all inputs that don't have the name 'newsletter' and appends text to the span next to it.

    HTML:
    <div>
    
        <input type="radio" name="newsletter" value="Hot Fuzz" />
        <span>name is newsletter</span>
    
      </div>
      <div>
        <input type="radio" value="Cold Fusion" />
        <span>no name</span>
    
      </div>
      <div>
        <input type="radio" name="accept" value="Evil Plans" />
    
        <span>name is accept</span>
      </div>
    Code:
    $('input[name!="newsletter"]').next().append('<b>; not newsletter</b>');