jquery remove duplicate li

Question

   
microsoft
  
microsoft
  
apple
  
apple
  
   
         


        

Answer 1

uniqueLi = {};

$("#myid li").each(function () {
  var thisVal = $(this).text();

  if ( !(thisVal in uniqueLi) ) {
    uniqueLi[thisVal] = "";
  } else {
    $(this).remove();
  }
})

This build an index (an object) of unique values. For your example, uniqueLi will look like this afterwards:

{
  "microsoft": "", 
  "apple": ""
}

So whenever a value is encountered that has been added to the index before, the associated