Find Tags Using Css Selector But Not Their Descendants

I'm trying to find tags meeting some condition but just those on the first level (relatively) (not their children etc.). I don't want to find their children, grandchildren etc. who

Solution 1:

Something like this could do the trick:

*:not([id*=example]) > [id*=example]

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/EVxYjE