In jQuery I want to remove all HTML inside of a div

Question

I have a div and I want to remove all the HTML inside of that div.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I don't think empty() or html() is what you are looking for. I guess you're looking for something like strip_tags in PHP. If you want to do this, than you need to add this function:

jQuery.fn.stripTags = function() {
    return this.replaceWith( this.html().replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '') );
};

Suppose this is your HTML:

This is bold and this is italic.

And then you do:

$("#foo").stripTags();

Which will result in:

This is bold and this is italic.