Remove all child nodes from a parent?
You can use .empty(), like this:
$("#foo").empty();
From the docs:
Remove all child nodes of the set of matched elements from the DOM.
A other users suggested,
.empty()
is good enought, because it removes all descendant nodes (both tag-nodes and text-nodes) AND all kind of data stored inside those nodes. See the JQuery's API empty documentation.
If you wish to keep data, like event handlers for example, you should use
.detach()
as described on the JQuery's API detach documentation.
The method .remove() could be usefull for similar purposes.