Use jquery to remove a div with no children

Question

How can I use jquery to remove a SPECIFIC div that has no children (at least no children that isn\'t whitespace). E.g.

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Answer 1

Here is if empty with children then you can point at children and then remove a parent, this dont look at whitespaces it just remove if empty

so like; if li is empty it removes #removeme

if (!$("#tabs ul li").length) $('#tabs').remove();