Question

I’m trying to remove the strong element from this HTML using jQuery but cant make it work (note: message_id here is actually PHP code, but I removed it for readability):

<p class="comments-layout" id="strong_messageid"><strong>text</strong></p>

I’ve tried his:

$('#strong'+messageid).children().first().unwrap();

after rearranging but did not work.

Answer 1

Assuming that you want the <p> element, you have to select the children elements and then unwrap it to remove just the #strongX element.

$('#strong'+messageid).children().unwrap();