Select all but one column of HTML table

Question

I'm using the following to select a table element in my application for users to drag/drop a table into Excel:

$('#footer').on("click", "#exportSel", function () {
    var el = document.getElementById(curTable);
    var body = document.body, range, sel;
    if (document.createRange && window.getSelection) {
        range = document.createRange();
        var sel = window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.selection;
        if (sel) {
            if (sel.removeAllRanges) {
                sel.removeAllRanges();
            } else if (sel.empty) {
                sel.empty();
            }
        }
        try {
            range.selectNodeContents(el);
            sel.addRange(range);
        } catch (e) {
            range.selectNode(el);
            sel.addRange(range);
        }
    } else if (body.createTextRange) {
        range = body.createTextRange();
        range.moveToElementText(el);
        range.select();
    }
});

...and everything is working fine. Except one of my tables has images in a column, and I would like remove this column (or td's in that column) from the selection.

I added the "Picture" td's to a "nosel" class, and was able to put all td's in the table not in that class into a variable:

cells = $("#" + curTable + " tr td:not(.nosel)");

I then omitted the code to remove or empty the current selection, and tried adding each cell to the selection:

range.selectNode(cells[i]);
sel.addRange(range);

... but only the first td is being selected.

So two questions:

1. Is this even possible?

2. Is there a better method to use than addRange? I tried extend but that did not work.

As requested, here is an example of my table:

<table class="sortable" id="resultsTable" border="1">
    <thead id="resultsHeader">
        <th>OID</th>
        <th>Image</th>
        <th>Address</th>
        <th>Parcel ID</th>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="resultsBody" data-ssimplename="results">
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td align="center" class="nosel"><img style="width: 125px;" src="http://www.vanderburghassessor.org/assessor_images/12/180/34/213/020/12-180-34-213-020-S.jpg"></td>
            <td align="center">5830 N KERTH AVE</td>
            <td align="center">82-06-04-034-213.020-020</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Answer 1

You can use the .not() function from jQuery.

$('myElements').not('myExcludedElements');

UPDATE:

JSFiddle would not load up for me for some reason so here it is in CodePen instead.

Example

Answer 2

I have decided to go about this another way.

Instead of removing the Image column from the selection, I am going to convert the images to the URL string when they make the selection:

`

for (i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
    var urlT = $(imgs[i]).attr('src');
    $(imgs[i]).hide();
    $(imgs[i]).parent().text(urlT);
}

`

This way the URL still exists to the image if in fact someone wants it.

The only issue is trying to restore the image once the selection is cleared. I tried adding an .on() function but it doesn't want to work correctly:

`

$('body').on('click', function () {
    if ($("#" + curTable + " img:hidden").length > 0) {
        var imgs = $('#' + curTable + " img:hidden");
        for (i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
            $(imgs[i]).parent().text() = '';
            imgs[i].show();
        }
    }
});

`

I can deal with it not restoring, but obviously I would prefer if it did.