How to check if an element does NOT have a specific class

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How do I check if there isn t a class  For example  I know how to check to see if it has the class  test   but how do I check to see if it doesn t have the class  test    if   this  hasClass  test

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I don t know why  but the accepted answer didn t work for me  Instead this worked   if    this  hasClass  test       false

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Select element  or group of elements  having class  abc   not having class  xyz            abc not   xyz       When selecting regular CSS you can use  abc not  xyz

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if     this  hasClass  test

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reading through this 6yrs later and thought I d also take a hack at it  also in the TIMTOWTDI vein    D  hoping it isn t incorrect  JS etiquette    I usually set up a var with the condition and then refer to it later on  i e      var set up globally OR locally depending on your requirements var hC   function el      var  this   el    hC    this hasClass  test          use the variable in the conditional statement   if   hC                   Although I should mention that I do this because I mainly use the conditional ternary operator and want clean code  So in this case  all i d have is this   hC        foo x  n          OR -----------  hC   foo x  n              instead of this    this hasClass  test          foo x  n          OR -----------    this hasClass  test      foo x  n

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use the  not   method and check for an attribute      p   not   class       Check it here  http   jsfiddle net AWb79

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You can try this    lt div id  div1  class  myClass  gt there is a class lt  div gt   lt div id  div2  gt  there is no class2  lt  div gt     document  ready function            div2   not   myClass        do not have  myClass  class

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sdleihssirhc s answer is of course the correct one for the case in the question  but just as a reference if you need to select elements that don t have a certain class  you can use the not selector      select all divs that don t have class test     div    not    test         div not  test           lt -- alternative

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There are more complex scenarios where this doesn t work  What if you want to select an element with class A that doesn t contain elements with class B  You end up needing something more like   If parent element does not contain certain child element  jQuery

[jquery] How to check if an element does NOT have a specific class?

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