Question

I want to remove all instances of

<br />

from my div. Using

$('div.std').remove(":contains('<br />')");

does not work. I copied and slightly modified this right from the jQuery documentation site.

Answer 1

Try instead:

$('div.std br').remove();

This selects the br elements that are descendants of the div of class .std, and then removes them from the DOM.

References:

• remove().