jquery remove list item where .text() = 'blabla'

Question

I have the following structure

 
something
 ...
 
blabla
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Answer 1

If you want a contains (substring match) then :contains() works:

$('li:contains("blabla")').remove();

If you want an exact match, e.g. not matching "blablabla", you can use .filter():

$('li').filter(function() { return $.text([this]) === 'blabla'; }).remove();