How to select all elements except the ones with a given class, using jQuery?

I want to select all elements in my page except th开发者_开发知识库ose with the class "searchBox".

How can I do that?

I want to disable text selection on all elements except input elements

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$('* :not(.searchBox)'); 

* : Matches all elements.

not: Filters out all elements matching the given selector