$('#test').text("")
The .remove() is to remove a DOM node. To preserve the node but empty
it, set it to an empty string. You have to supply an argument ("") or
else the behavior becomes 'return the text within the node.'
On Jan 24, 12:28 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com>
wrote:
> This didn't work for me...
>
> $('#test').text().remove();
>
> with this HTML:
>
> <div id="test" style="width:200px; height:100px; border:1px solid
> black;">test test</div>
>
> However, with this jQuery:
>
> $('#test p:contains()').remove();
>
> and this HTML:
>
> <div id="test" style="width:200px; height:100px; border:1px solid
> black;"><p>test test</p></div>
>
> I could remove any text from the p inside the div. It did, however, remove
> the <p> element, as well,
> but it did leave the div in place. (I put a border around the div so I could
> see if it remained...)
>
> Seems like it should be easy to remove the text from within an element and
> leave the element, itself,
> but I couldn't figure out a way in a few minutes of experimenting and reading
> the docs.
>
> Rick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of brian
> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:19 PM
> > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: [jQuery] Re: remove()
>
> > remove() should be used if you want to remove the div from the DOM. To
> > empty its contents, just use text() or html(), which will replce the
> > content of the div.
>
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Charlie22 <ch...@post.cz> wrote:
>
> > > Thx, but I need leave DIV tag on the place..I thought $
> > > ('#test>*').remove(), but no success.
>
> > > On 24 Led, 17:54, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> $('#test').text('') or $('#test').html('') might be what you want.
>
> > >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Charlie22 <ch...@post.cz> wrote:
>
> > >> > I have question how easy remove content from DIV, e.g.
> > >> > <div id='test'>test text</div>
>
> > >> > I thought that code
> > >> > $('#test').remove()
> > >> > managed it, but it doesnt true. Thx in advance.- Skrýt citovaný text -
>
> > >> - Zobrazit citovaný text -
