jQuery select elements that do not contain a class [duplicate]

Answer 1

To do it just with a selector, you'd use :not with :has:

$(".hi:not(:has(.image))")
// or to be more specific:
$(".hi:not(:has(.hue > .image))")

Note that :has is jQuery-specific.

To do it with filter, you could use find in the callback:

$(".hi").filter(function() { return $(this).find(".image").length == 0; })
// or to be more specific:
$(".hi").filter(function() { return $(this).find(".hue > .image").length == 0; })