How to remove text inside an element with jQuery?

Question

I have a script that creates a list of items with a structure like this:

<li>
    <div>Some stuff</div>
    <a href="http://www.mysite.com/">New Item</a> 
    (1 vote)
</li>

I was wondering if there was a way to remove everything outside the <div> and <a> tags, in this case the (1 vote) string, with jQuery or regular javascript.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

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.