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HTML
<div class="test">
<div class="class1">
<input type="text" data-required="true"/>
</div>
<input type="text" data-required="true"/>
</div>
JavaScript
$(".test [data-required]").css("background", "blue");
$(".test [data-required]:not('.class1')").css("background", "red");