How to remove empty select menu tag with jQuery or JavaScript

Question

I want to remove empty select menu tags from my html page.

<select name="test"></select>  --- remove

<select name="test"> <option value="test">test</option> </select>  --- do not remove

Thanks

Answer 1

Preferably suppress the empty SELECT in server-side code. But if you insist on using client-side techniques:

$('select:empty').remove();