clear table jquery

I needed this:

$('#myTable tbody > tr').remove();

It deletes all rows except the header.

Slightly quicker than removing each one individually:

$('#myTable').empty()

Technically, this will remove thead, tfoot and tbody elements too.

If you want to clear the data but keep the headers:

$('#myTableId tbody').empty();

The table must be formatted in this manner:

<table id="myTableId">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>header1</th><th>header2</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>data1</td><td>data2</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Use .remove()

$("#yourtableid tr").remove();

If you want to keep the data for future use even after removing it then you can use .detach()

$("#yourtableid tr").detach();

If the rows are children of the table then you can use child selector instead of descendant selector, like

$("#yourtableid > tr").remove();