Remove innerHTML from div

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I m trying to clear the div s innerHTML before repopulating it   I tried removeData   but once that s called  when I try to add the data  I get nothing from the next line after remove whereas if I remove the removeData   it s fine again   I just want to clear out any previous content in that div before I re-populate it       divToUpdate removeData      clean out any existing innerHTML div content first     divToUpdate html data     It looks like it never gets to my divToUpdate html data  for some reason after it calls that removeData

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div   html        But why are you clearing  divToUpdate html data   will completely replace the old HTML

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jQuery Data is a different concept than HTML   removeData is not for removing element content  it s for removing data items you ve previously stored   Just do   divToUpdate html        or   divToUpdate empty

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you should be able to just overwrite it without removing previous data

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To remove all child elements from your div       mysweetdiv   empty       removeData   and the corresponding  data   function are used to attach data behind an element  say if you wanted to note that a specific list element referred to user ID 25 in your database   var  li       lt li gt Joe lt  li gt    data  id   25

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divToUpdate innerHTML

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var  div       desiredDiv     div contents   remove     div html   lt p gt This is new HTML  lt  p gt       That should work just fine

[jquery] Remove innerHTML from div

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