Question

Is there a way to remove text that is not wrapped in any tag using jQuery

<p>This is some text</p>

This is "unwrapped" text //to be removed

<span>some more text</span>

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Using the answer from this question:

$(elem)
  .contents()
  .filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == 3; //Node.TEXT_NODE
  }).remove();