clear table jquery

Question

I have an HTML table filled with a number of rows.

How can I remove all the rows from the table?

Answer 1

  $('#myTable > tr').remove();

Answer 2

If you want to clear the data but keep the headers:

$('#myTableId tbody').empty();

The table must be formatted in this manner:

<table id="myTableId">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>header1</th><th>header2</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>data1</td><td>data2</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Answer 3

The nuclear option:

$("#yourtableid").html("");

Destroys everything inside of #yourtableid. Be careful with your selectors, as it will destroy any html in the selector you pass!

Answer 4

Slightly quicker than removing each one individually:

$('#myTable').empty()

Technically, this will remove thead, tfoot and tbody elements too.