Exclude certain TagNames from * selection

Using the statement:

var children = document.getElementById('id').getElementsByTagN开发者_StackOverflow社区ame('*');

I'd like to exclude all <BR> elements, is there a syntax for getElementsByTagName that lets me do that, or some other nice way?

You can't do it with a native function, but you can easily filter.

http://jsfiddle.net/idbentley/ncH95/4/

It would be easier to use jQuery or a similar library (Zepto is a good tiny lib), but if you want to use raw javascript you can use the above.

If you use an framework like jquery you can do

$('#id').children().not('br');

With jQuery you could do:

$('#id *').not('br');

There isn't a special operator for that, but you can filter easily.

(function () {
    var element = document.getElementById('id');

    if (element.tagName === "br")
        throw "AHHHHH!!! IT'S A BR AHHHHH!!!!!!";

    // Do stuff if it's not a br.
}).apply(this);