[jQuery] Re: Select the inverse of what you're looking for

Try this:

$("tr:not(:contains(Brown))").css("background-color", "Red");

On Oct 30, 12:58 pm, Aaron Gusman <ict.aarongus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a table with 2 columns and four rows.  I am currently able to
> highlight the row which contains a specific piece of text.  But what I
> want to do is to highlight the rows that DO NOT have that piece of
> text.  Here's the code:
>
> This line highlights the row that contains a cell with the text
> "Brown":
>         var found = $("tr:has(td:contains('Brown'))").css("background-color",
> "Red");
>
> However, I do not want to highlight the row with the text but all the
> others..so I tried this:
>         var found = $("tr:has(td:contains('Brown'))");
>         $("tr:not(found)").css("background-color", "Red").css("background-
> color", "Red");
> I thought the :not filter was supposed to invert the selection however
> this does not work..all rows get highlighted.
>
> Were am I wrong??  And how can I do this?  Here's the HTML just in
> case you want to try it.
>
> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
>   <tr>
>     <th>English</th>
>     <th>Italian</th>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>White</td>
>     <td>Bianco</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>Yellow</td>
>     <td>Giallo</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>Brown</td>
>     <td>Marrone</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>Black</td>
>     <td>Nero</td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
>
> Thanks