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Asked: 2026-05-29T07:05:14+00:00

I’m trying to remove everything in the whole body, except of a single element

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I’m trying to remove everything in the whole body, except of a single element and its children. How can I accomplish this?

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Consider the following markup:

<html>
   <body>
      <div id="div1"></div>
      <div id="div2">
         <div id="elementNotToRemove"></div>
      </div>
      <div id="div3"></div>
      <div id="div4"></div>
   </body>
</html>

In the above example, I want to remove div1, div3 and div4, as well as their children, but conserve div2 because it contains the element not to remove.

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  1. Editorial Team
     $("body > *").not("body > #elementtokeep").remove();

    You can replace the not() part with whatever you want to keep

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