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

this is a simple code I just wrote to solve this, without removing the header row (first one).

var Tbl = document.getElementById('tblId');
while(Tbl.childNodes.length>2){Tbl.removeChild(Tbl.lastChild);}

Hope it works for you!!.

Answer 2

How about this:

When the page first loads, do this:

var myTable = document.getElementById("myTable");
myTable.oldHTML=myTable.innerHTML;

Then when you want to clear the table:

myTable.innerHTML=myTable.oldHTML;

The result will be your header row(s) if that's all you started with, the performance is dramatically faster than looping.

Answer 3

Assing some id to tbody tag. i.e. . After this, the following line should retain the table header/footer and remove all the rows.

document.getElementById("yourID").innerHTML="";

And, if you want the entire table (header/rows/footer) to wipe out, then set the id at table level i.e.

Answer 4

This works in IE without even having to declare a var for the table and will delete all rows:

for(var i = 0; i < resultsTable.rows.length;)
{   
   resultsTable.deleteRow(i);
}

Answer 5

Keep the <th> row in a <thead> and the other rows in a <tbody> then replace the <tbody> with a new, empty one.

i.e.

var new_tbody = document.createElement('tbody');
populate_with_new_rows(new_tbody);
old_tbody.parentNode.replaceChild(new_tbody, old_tbody)

Answer 6

the give below code works great. It removes all rows except header row. So this code really t

$("#Your_Table tr>td").remove();