Opposite of append in jquery

Question

I use  append to add to a div   this  append   lt ul gt  lt li gt test lt  li gt  lt  ul gt      how can I search for a  lt ul gt  and remove it if it exists in the children of   this

User · Accepted Answer

You could use remove    More information on jQuery remove       this  children  ul   remove      Note that this will remove all ul elements that are children

User · Answer

The opposite of  append   is  prepend     From the jQuery documentation for prepend        The  prepend   method inserts the specified content as the first child of each element in the jQuery collection  To insert it as the last child  use  append       I realize this doesn   t answer the OP   s specific case  But it does answer the question heading     And it   s the first hit on Google for    jquery opposite append

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What you also should consider  is keeping a reference to the created element  then you can easily remove it specificly      var newUL       lt ul gt  lt li gt test lt  li gt  lt  ul gt          this  append newUL          Later         newUL remove

User · Answer

just had the same problem and ive come across this - which actually does the trick for me           the div   contents   remove       or short       the div   empty        the div   append  HTML goes in here

User · Answer

Use the remove   method     this  children  ul   remove

User · Answer

Opposite up is children    but opposite in position is prepend    Here a very good tutorial

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