Question

If I have a string that contains this.

Hi my name is <span class="name">Joe</span>. Just wanted to say <b>Hi</b>.

And I want to remove certain tags including what fills it. Example with this string would be the <span> tag only.

I would remove

<span class="name">Joe</span>

…and the finished output would be

Hi my name is . Just wanted to say <b>Hi</b>. 

How would I do this?

Answer 1

You could either do this with

jQuery('<div>' + yourstring + '</div>').find('span').remove();

or

jQuery('<div>' + yourstring + '</div>').find('.name').remove();

Pick the second one if you only want to remove the element with the class “name”.

A working example: http://jsfiddle.net/ZWw6d/

Have a look at the documentation: http://api.jquery.com/remove/