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<pre><code id="code-10-28388935-1">var items = document.querySelectorAll('.x .y .z');</code></pre>
That selects all elements with the matching CSS pattern. &nbsp;I do NOT want to select any elements that contain the class: &quot;skip&quot;.<br />
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So this should match:<br />
&lt;div class=&quot;x&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;y&quot;&gt;&lt;em class=&quot;z&quot;&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<br />
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But this should NOT match:<br />
&lt;div class=&quot;x&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;y&quot;&gt;&lt;em class=&quot;z skip&quot;&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<br />
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How can this be done with JavaScript or jQuery?
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(CODE)That selects all elements with the matching CSS pattern.  I do NOT want to select any elements that contain the class: "skip".

So this should match:
<div class="x"><p class="y"><em class="z"></em></p></div>

But this should NOT match:
<div class="x"><p class="y"><em class="z skip"></em></p></div>

How can this be done with JavaScript or jQuery?

JavaScript: Exclude items from document.querySelectorAll

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