Remove element from a cached jquery selection

Question

This should'nt be that difficult but for some reason i'm having trouble with this.

I want to remove the first li from a cached ul:

var $selection = jQuery('.list').filter('.exclude');

.

<ul class="list">
  <li class="exclude" >Do not Include</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>
</ul>

How do I capture the entire ul object without the first child li element in it?

Thanks

EDIT: The resulting jquery object i'm looking for is:

<ul class="list">
  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>
</ul>

Not this:

  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>

Answer 1

jsBin demo

var $selection = jQuery('.list li').not('.exclude');

(You were close:) Using the .not() (or :not) selector and $('.list li') elements collection (to be filtered)

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$('.list li').remove('.exclude');

demo

http://api.jquery.com/not-selector/
http://api.jquery.com/not

Answer 2

http://jsfiddle.net/9NtLF =)

var list = $("ul.list").clone();
list.find("li.exclude").remove();