How to remove text inside an element with jQuery?

This should work.

$("li").contents().filter(function(){ return this.nodeType != 1; }).remove();

or by specifying text nodes explicitly

$("li").contents().filter(function(){ return this.nodeType == 3; }).remove();

See this fiddle.

javascript jquery html regex replace

$('li').not('div,a').text('')

Try this, untested

Edit

$('li').contents().filter(function(){ return !(this.tagName == 'DIV'                                             || this.tagName == 'A');}).remove();

javascript jquery html regex replace

$('li').html($(this).children())

You can try this, it should work. Clean and easy.

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