Question

I’m trying to come up with a javascript/jquery method that will allow me to remove all select list options containing a particular text pattern on page load.

So far I have:

 $('select option:contains(\'foo\')')

Which returns me all the elements – how can I remove them? My initial thought was something along the lines of:

 $('select option:contains(\'foo\')').each().remove();

But this throws an exception.

Am I approaching this incorrectly?

Answer 1

$("select option:contains('foo')").remove();

jQuery functions automatically work on all selected elements. No need to use each() here.