jQuery empty()

Introduction

Remove the content of all <div> elements:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script 
 src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>/* w  ww . j a va2 s.  c o m*/
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("button").click(function(){
    $("div").empty();
  });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div style="height:100px;background-color:yellow">
  This is some text
  <p>This is a paragraph inside the div.</p>
</div>

<p>This is a paragraph outside the div.</p>

<button>Remove content of the div element</button>

</body>
</html>

The empty() method removes all child nodes from the selected elements.

The empty() method does not remove the element itself or its attributes. 

$(selector).empty()



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