How to empty the content of a div

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Does someone know how to empty the content of a div  without destroying it  in JavaScript   Thanks   Bruno

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An alternative way to do it is   var div   document getElementById  myDiv    while div firstChild      div removeChild div firstChild     However  using document getElementById  myDiv   innerHTML       is faster   See  Benchmark test  N B   Both methods preserve the div

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If by saying without destroying it  you mean to a keep a reference to the children  you can do   var oldChildren        while element hasChildNodes          oldChildren push element removeChild element firstChild          Regarding the original tagging  html css  of your question   You cannot remove content with CSS  You could only hide it  E g  you can hide all children of a certain node with    someID  gt          display  none      This doesn t work in IE6 though  but you could use  someID

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In jQuery it would be as simple as     yourDivID   empty    See the documentation

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This method works best to me   Element prototype remove   function         this parentElement removeChild this     NodeList prototype remove   HTMLCollection prototype remove   function         for var i   this length - 1  i  gt   0  i--            if this i   amp  amp  this i  parentElement                this i  parentElement removeChild this i                        To use it we can deploy like this   document getElementsByID  DIV Id   remove      or  document getElementsByClassName  DIV Class   remove

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If you re using jQuery         div   html        or      div   empty

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If your div looks like this     lt div id  MyDiv  gt content in here lt  div gt   Then this Javascript    document getElementById  MyDiv   innerHTML         will make it look like this     lt div id  MyDiv  gt  lt  div gt

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you can  remove   each child   const div   document querySelector  div my-div   while div firstChild  div firstChild remove

[javascript] How to empty the content of a div

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