Delete all rows in an HTML table

Question

How can I delete all rows of an HTML table except the \'s using Javascript, and without looping through all the rows in the table? I have a very huge

Answer 1

If you can declare an ID for tbody you can simply run this function:

var node = document.getElementById("tablebody");
while (node.hasChildNodes()) {
  node.removeChild(node.lastChild);
}