jQuery: the find() method
by dshilkret
HTML
<p><button id="find">find()</button></p>
<ul class="level-1">
<li class="item-i">I</li>
<li class="item-ii">II
<ul class="level-2">
<li class="item-a">A</li>
<li class="item-b">B
<ul class="level-3">
<li class="item-1">1</li>
<li class="item-2">2</li>
<li class="item-3">3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="item-c">C</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="item-iii">III</li>
</ul>
CSS
.test {
background: yellow;
}
JavaScript
$('#find').click(function() {
$('ul.level-1')//.find('li:not([class$="i"])').addClass('test');
});