How can I refresh a stored and snapshotted jquery selector variable

Question

I ran yesterday in a problem with a jquery-selector I assigned to a variable and it\'s driving me mad.

Here is a jsfiddle with testcase:

• assign the .el

Answer 1

If you use remove() it will remove only a part of the DOM but not all the children or related, instead if you use empty() on the element the problem is gone.

E.G.:

 $('#parent .child).find('#foo').empty();

Maybe it can be useful to someone!