Question

I have some text that is stored in a variable like this:

<div class="foo">text inside div</div>
outside text here.

I want to remove the entire div and the text in it and save the outside text.

Answer 1

Create an element based off the HTML. Then,

$('.foo', context).remove();

For example:

var text = "<div class=\"foo\">text inside div</div>\noutside text here.";
var xml = $('<root>' + text + '</root>');
$('.foo', xml).remove();
text = xml.html();