I am adding some dom with ajax in a page where i am trying to excluding seleted result by .not() but its not working for me.

Here is a simple example:

HTML:

<div class="list-item">
        <span class="item-title">Some title</span>
        <span class="edit fr"><a href="Edit link">Edit</a></span>
        <span class="trash fr"><a href="#trashit" rel="trash">Trash</a></span>
        <span class="live fr active"><a href="#liveit" rel="publish">Live</a></span>
        <span class="draft fr"><a href="#draftit" rel="draft">Draft</a></span>

 </div>

jQuery:

jQuery('.list-item span a').not('.list-item span.edit a').live('click', function(){

       //do stuff
});

Observation:

1. If i remove the .not() section of the code the selection is works fine with live().
2. If i use .not() but replace live() with click() the code works.

But i need to run the .not() (exclude the .edit class) with the live(); (including dom with ajax)

Thanks in advance!

I am adding some dom with ajax in a page where i am trying to excluding seleted result by .not() but its not working for me.

Here is a simple example:

HTML:

<div class="list-item">
        <span class="item-title">Some title</span>
        <span class="edit fr"><a href="Edit link">Edit</a></span>
        <span class="trash fr"><a href="#trashit" rel="trash">Trash</a></span>
        <span class="live fr active"><a href="#liveit" rel="publish">Live</a></span>
        <span class="draft fr"><a href="#draftit" rel="draft">Draft</a></span>

 </div>

jQuery:

jQuery('.list-item span a').not('.list-item span.edit a').live('click', function(){

       //do stuff
});

Observation:

1. If i remove the .not() section of the code the selection is works fine with live().
2. If i use .not() but replace live() with click() the code works.

But i need to run the .not() (exclude the .edit class) with the live(); (including dom with ajax)

Thanks in advance!

• javascript
• jquery

3 Answers 3

As per the .live() docs:

DOM traversal methods are not supported for finding elements to send to .live(). Rather, the .live() method should always be called directly after a selector, as in the example above.

So, add the class exclusion to the selector:

jQuery('.list-item span:not(.edit) a').live('click', function(){
    //do stuff
});

Try

$('.list-item span:not(.edit) a').live(...);

As someone else pointed out, DOM traversal is not supported for live. live has some other restrictions too, check the doc.

jQuery('.list-item').filter(function(){

return $(this).not("span.edit a")
})
.live('click', function(){

       //do stuff
});