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And, you would be the only one who uses these wild cards.

No, he's not the only one.

This would be an interesting plugin. I don’t think it is needed by 99 44/100% of users.

http://jsfiddle.net/jakecigar/kfLzY/ defines the plugin declasse. Not tested in all browsers.

Jake, aren’t you being a bit presumptuous there? I know what I’m doing.

I need to use classes because they are used in CSS styling. Using .data() and a CSS selector with [data-foo='...'] does not work, as .data() does not actually change the attributes as documented.

What does anything I said have to do with data- attributes?

Or I can just use classes, as I’m already doing. That makes the CSS much simpler. The only thing missing to make the jQuery handling simpler too is the ability to use a wildcard in .removeClass() .

Jake, your behaviour is confrontational and rude. I came here to make an honest suggestion in good faith and you are responding to it with disdain. It would be a shame if jQuery’s development is stifled because of your unwelcoming attitude towards people who are trying to be helpful.

Sorry you feel that way. I wrote a plugin that you could use. I know that your need is not common , I explained why .

Thank you for your kind(er) response, Jake.

Personally, I feel you haven’t really explained why the use-case is uncommon:
• You’ve asserted that my “logic is flawed”, but you have no way of knowing this, as you know nothing about my project and its logic. The statement simply assumes that I must be wrong and you must know better, which is confrontational.
• You stated that “most people would keep an array of their foo-s” — you have no way of knowing this without conducting a representative survey. You could have phrased this as a question in order to find out whether that solution is even applicable in my case.
• You ignored thax’s comment which indicates that I’m not alone in this, and which describes a possible reason why your proposed array solution might not be available.

I am not upset if the feature is not added to jQuery. There may be a good reason not to, but you haven’t provided it.

Many thanks for your effort in writing that plugin. I’ll definitely consider using that. I admit I didn’t know about .classList.

(P.S. Bulleted lists do not display at all in this forum (at least according to the preview). I wonder if someone could fix that.)

Jake was actually polite and helpful. He didn't assert that your logic was flawed, he said it was probably flawed. You failed to provide any real details up front, so the best Jake could do was provide a generic response. He also didn't ignore Thax, he commented that using a regex would be an interesting plugin, then went ahead and built the plugin for both of you.

I think I will just let this thread fester.

I know this is an old thread but weighing in on this I think it would be an incredibly useful piece of functionality. As Thax mentions above - other libraries (such as mootools) provide a simple way to do this so I do question why it is too heavy a price to be included in JQuery.

I think I will just let this thread fester.