whitelisting/negating DIV elements

[wrbl]

Hi, I'm using Adblock Plus 0.7.1.1.
There is a site containing a few DIVs, some of which are ads I'd like to hide. The problem is that all ads lack an id attribute while all normal elements have an id; however, neither Adblock nor CSS selectors seem to support negative matches.
So I thought I could work around this problem by using the following two filters:

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example.com#div(class=foo)
@@example.com#div(class=foo)(id^=)

i.e. hide all DIVs with a certain class but whitelist those that have an id.
This doesn't work. Is it possible to combine whitelisting and element hiding at all? Is there another way to do this (besides writing a greasemonkey script)?

[Peng]

Yeah, whitelisting doesn't work for element hiding filters. I dunno if there's another way to do this, unfortunately.

[ziutek]

You can use the CSS3 :not() selector. Something like this (untested!):

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example.com##div[class="foo"]:not([id])

[Wladimir Palant]

Right, ziutek's suggestion should work.

[wrbl]

Thanks, it worked!
Could you add a link to the CSS3 selector spec to the adblock documentation? I think this would help people with similar problems.

[Stupid Head]

Could you add a link to the CSS3 selector spec to the adblock documentation?

There already is: http://adblockplus.org/en/filters#elemhide_css

[Wladimir Palant]

No, I am linking to the CSS2 implementation because it is fully implemented in Gecko. A link to CSS3 would cause too much confusion.

[sheepy]

Be warned that CSS3 spec is not complete, and many selectors are not implemented.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/