Remove elements with only a space using jQuery

Question

Is there a way to remove this

using jQuery?

Answer 1

$("p").filter( function() {
            return $.trim($(this).html()) == '';
        }).remove()

I used this to remove empty paragraph that contains not element such as IMG, Input, Select, etc.

Answer 2

This could be a better solution for CMSs. Some rich text editors add   inside empty paragraphs.

    $("p").filter( function() {

        var html = $(this).html();

        if(html == '' || html == ' ')
            return true;

    }).addClass('emptyP');

Answer 3

give it an id (to get the selector).

<p id="myP"></p>


<script>

$("#myP").remove();

</script>

Answer 4

Try:

$('p')
    .filter(function() {
        return $.trim($(this).text()) === '' && $(this).children().length == 0
    })
    .remove()

What that does is it finds all the <p>s that have nothing in them, and removes them from the DOM.

Answer 5

As Greg mentions above, testing the trimmed .text() will remove paragraphs w/ no text, but do have a self-contained element like the <img> tag. To avoid, trim the .html() return. As text is considered a child element in the DOM, you'll be set.

$("p").filter( function() {
    return $.trim($(this).html()) == '';
}).remove()

Answer 6

Probably same answer as here, try to do this on code behind.

With jquery i'll use this:

$("p:empty").remove();

Also you could use .empty(), that will remove all child nodes from the set of matched elements.