small 'else-like' function: "instead" or "others"

[oliverlangan]

From the mailing lists: ​http://tinyurl.com/5ru4fl ​http://tinyurl.com/5kev5r

This function allows you to write else-like statements in jQuery chains, immediately ending a previous destructive operation and filtering to everything else that had not been previously matched.

jQuery.fn.instead = function() {

return this.end().not(this);

};

A good name would have been 'else' but as a reserved word that causes some problems. Other suggested names have been "instead", "others", "otherwise", "invert", or "inverse".

[oliverlangan]

One possible extension to this code would be the ability to pass in an additional selector, creating more of an if-elseif-else structure: however, I could not see a way to filter out both the first ('if') and subsequent (elseif) sets from the final ('else') set.

[flesler]

Can you provide 2-3 simple situations where this is really useful ?

[dmethvin]

Rather than leave this ticket open, perhaps someone can create a plugin and show its usefulness that way.