jQuery - Selecting all NON-Matches?

I 开发者_StackOverflowhave a list like this:

<div class="commentList>
  <div name="version-1>stuff</div>
  <div name="version-1>stuff</div>
  <div name="version-1>stuff</div>
  <div name="version-2>stuff</div>
  <div name="version-3>stuff</div>
  <div name="version-3>stuff</div>
</div>

I'd like a line of jquery that, given a version #, like 3, will update the.CommentList to only show div's with name="version-3" the others will be hidden?

Possible w/o IDs?

I'd use a class here since name isn't a valid attribute, then you can do this:

$(".commentList > div").hide();        //hide them all
$(".commentlist > .version-3").show(); //show what you want

If you must use name, the second line would look like this:

$(".commentlist > div[name='version-3']").show();

But..try and be valid with a class here.

would using the not selector be a bad idea?

$(".commentList").children().not("div[name='version-3']").hide();

although the idea of hiding them all first is not such a bad dea :)

$('.commentList > div[name!=version-'+num+']').hide();

but of course it wont toggle back any divs that may already be hidden. @Nick has a good answer.