I am trying to remove the header/footer balk of this table
Picture of what I am trying to remove:
I am not familiar with jquery but shouldn't you just set style="display: none;"
or style="visibility: hidden;"
or remove it with the DOM by using removeChild (normal javascript). And maybe you could use first and last sibling to select header and footer (just a bunch of ideas, sorry to do it this way can't comment yet :)