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Asked: 2026-06-10T08:54:56+00:00

I wanted to remove all text from html and print only tags. I Ended

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I wanted to remove all text from html and print only tags. I Ended up writing this:

var html = $('html');
var elements = html.find('*');
elements.text('');
alert(html.html());

It only out prints <head></head><body></body>. Was not that suppose to print all tags. I’ve nearly 2000 tags in the html.

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  1. Editorial Team
    var elements = html.find('*');
elements.text('');

    That says “find all elements below html, then empty them”. That includes body and head. When they are emptied, there are no other elements on the page, so they are the only ones that appear in html‘s content.

    If you really wnat to remove all text from the page and leave the elements, you’ll have to do it with DOM methods:

    html.find('*').each(function() {               // loop over all elements
    $(this).contents().each(function() {       // loop through each element's child nodes
        if (this.nodeType === 3) {             // if the node is a text node
            this.parentNode.removeChild(this); // remove it from the document
        }
    });
})
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