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Atticus
Atticus

Reputation: 6720

jQuery remove all list items from an unordered list

I forgot the jQuery command that will clear all list elements from a list. I did a bit of searching, done it a bunch of times before, but just simply forgot the command.

$("ul").clear()
$("ul").empty()

both didn't seem to accomplish this.. which command is it again?

UPDATE:
Thanks guys, I must have some syntax error on my selector.

Upvotes: 142

Views: 223046

Answers (9)

sparsh turkane
sparsh turkane

Reputation: 1323

If you have multiple ul and want to empty specific ul then use id eg:

<ul id="randomName">
   <li>1</li>
   <li>2</li>
   <li>3</li>
</ul>


<script>
  $('#randomName').empty();
</script>


$('input').click(function() {
  $('#randomName').empty()
})
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<ul id="randomName">
  <li>1</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>
</ul>

<ul>
  <li>4</li>
  <li>5</li>
</ul>
<input type="button" value="click me" />

Upvotes: 4

Richard Dalton
Richard Dalton

Reputation: 35793

$("ul").empty() works fine. Is there some other error?

$('input').click(function() {
  $('ul').empty()
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
  <li>test</li>
  <li>test</li>
</ul>

<input type="button" value="click me" />

http://jsfiddle.net/infernalbadger/D5ss8/

Upvotes: 314

user330844
user330844

Reputation: 880

this worked for me with minimal code

$(my_list).remove('li');

Upvotes: 0

Alexandre Lima
Alexandre Lima

Reputation: 324

   var ul = document.getElementById("yourElementId");

     while (ul.firstChild)
         ul.removeChild(ul.firstChild);

Upvotes: 3

Nanang Rustianto
Nanang Rustianto

Reputation: 11

Look your class or id. Perhaps Like This $("#resi_result").html(''); This should work:

Upvotes: 1

Naor
Naor

Reputation: 24053

$("ul").empty() should work and clear the childrens. you can see it here:

http://jsfiddle.net/ZKFA5/

Upvotes: 3

David Thomas
David Thomas

Reputation: 253308

As noted by others, $('ul').empty() works fine, as does:

$('ul li').remove();

JS Fiddle demo.

Upvotes: 19

Jared Farrish
Jared Farrish

Reputation: 49188

An example using .remove():

<p>Remove LI's from list</p>
<ul>
    <li>Test</li>
    <li>Test</li>
    <li>Test</li>
    <li>Test</li>
    <li>Test</li>
</ul>
<p>END</p>

setTimeout(function(){$('ul li').remove();},1000);

http://jsfiddle.net/userdude/ZAd2Y/

Also, .empty() should have worked.

Upvotes: 0

RoccoC5
RoccoC5

Reputation: 4213

This should work:

$("ul").html('')

Upvotes: 12

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