Remove inner divs from a parent div using jquery

$("#parentDiv").empty(); from here

Have you tried $("#parentDiv div").remove() or $("#parentDiv").empty() ?

.empty() removes all of the children of the selected element(s); .remove() removes the selected element(s) themselves as well as any children.

Thus, $("#parentdiv").empty(); makes the most sense here, because you want to remove the children but not the parent div.