Question

So I have following string:

var s = '<span>Some Text</span> Some other Text';

The result should be a string with the content “Some other Text”.

I tried…

var $s = $(s).not('span');

…and a lot of other stuff with remove(), not(), etc. but nothing worked.

Any suggestions? I could match the string with regex, but I prefer a common jQuery solution.

edit:

I do not search a solution with regex, I’m just wondering why this example does not work:
http://jsfiddle.net/q9crX/150/

Answer 1

You can wrap your string in a jQuery object and do some sort of a manipulation like this:

var removeElements = function(text, selector) {
    var wrapped = $("<div>" + text + "</div>");
    wrapped.find(selector).remove();
    return wrapped.html();
}

USAGE

var removedSpanString = removeElements("<span>Some Text</span> Some other Text", "span");

The beauty of this approach is that you can specify a jquery selector which to remove. i.e. you may wish to remove the <th> in a string. This would be very handy in that case.
Hope this helps!