Remove text with jQuery

Solution 1:

Using the answer from this question:

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

Solution 2:

First, you can wrap them with dummy spans:

$("body").contents()
    .filter(function(){ return this.nodeType != 1; })
    .wrap("<span class='orphan'/>");

Now you can remove them easily:

$('span.orphan').remove();

Solution 3:

fwiw..

<div class="parent-element">
<p>This is some text</p>
This is "unwrapped" text //to be removed
<span>some more text</span>
</div>

via CSS:

.parent-element { font-size: 0px; }
.parent-element p { font-size: 12px; }
.parent-element span { font-size: 14px; }