jquery Remove html tags from html string

Question

I need to load an html string into memory from the page and remove divs that have a certain class using jQuery.

What I am trying to do is below but it doesn't work.

var reportHTML = $('#collapsereportsdata').html()
$(reportHTML).(".dontprintme").each().remove();

Thanks

Answer 1

To get the HTML with the tags removed you can .clone() the element and remove the elements you don't want before getting it's HTML, like this:

var newHTML = $('#collapsereportsdata').clone().find(".dontprintme")
                                               .remove().end().html();

This performs a .clone() of the original element, does a .find() to get the elements you want to .remove(), then uses .end() to jump back to the cloned element, since that's the one you'd want to get the html via .html() from.