trim "px" off the end of Jquery var

Question

I have a variable which stores the css value of a margin. I want to remove the "px" from the end so that i just have the number to work with. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Using the String.replace() method is an easy way:

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp

Answer 2

var x = "1px";
var y = parseInt(x);