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HTML

<a id = "1" href="/someurl..">link</a>
<a id = "2" href="/someurl..">link</a>
<a id = "3" href="/someurl..">link</a>

<div id="content">
   <a id = "4" href="/someurl..">link</a>
</div>

JavaScript

$('a:not(#content a)').css('background','red');