是否有一种更优雅的方式将css应用到“除了这个以外的所有元素”?

I have some html/jQuery that I am using to implement some tabbed navigation. When a new tab is selected I need to make it's css class "active" and change the previous tabs css class to "inactive". To do this I have been using the following code inside of my I have some html/jQuery that I am using to impl