How to find single <hr> or <br> elements and remove them with Javascript?

[pstein]

Assume I have HTML code similar to

<div ...>....</div><hr><div ...>....</div>

or

<p>....</p><br><p>....</p>

As you can see there are single <hr> or <br> elements with some leading or trailing whitespaces but no further textaround them.How can I delete them (including the leading/trailing whitespaces) but not the <div> resp. <p> elements before and after?Peter

[dsonesuk]

Use document.getElementsByTagName('HR'); (or ('BR') which will collect a list of these elements found, then you can identify the number '.length', create a for loop, and go through each one and remove.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom_nodes.asp under removing existing html elements.