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 have far fewer rows than non- rows, you could collect all the rows into a string, remove the entire table, and then write

thstring where the table used to be.

EDIT: Where, obviously, "thstring" is the html for all of the rows of s.