I want to remove anchors with href contains \"#tab\" without a specific css class \"atitleTabs\" from some specific divs whose Id contains \"tab\". I have trie
Try to use attribute contains selector to achieve what you want,
$('div[id*="tab"] a[href*="#tab"]:not(".atitleTabs")').remove();
or just try the samething with .filter()
.filter()
$('div[id*="tab"] a[href*="#tab"])').filter(':not(".atitleTabs")').remove();