How to empty the content of a div

If you're using jQuery ...

$('div').html('');

$('div').empty();

If your div looks like this:

<div id="MyDiv">content in here</div>

Then this Javascript:

document.getElementById("MyDiv").innerHTML = "";

will make it look like this:

<div id="MyDiv"></div>

An alternative way to do it is:

var div = document.getElementById('myDiv');
while(div.firstChild)
    div.removeChild(div.firstChild);

However, using document.getElementById('myDiv').innerHTML = ""; is faster.

See: Benchmark test

N.B.

Both methods preserve the div.

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