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Remove any specific html code using javascript

In the past I used Google Developer Console to delete some specific divs on a page. I could do it manually of course but in some cases where the divs where many I had to use the console. I had a single line code that did the job (I found it while searching the internet) but I lost my note.
So how can I delete using javascript any html code (by copy pasting the code).
Something like:
elements = $('<div ... </div>');
elements.remove();
OR
$('<div ... </div>').remove();
Any ideas? I am not an expert in javascript (obviously) and I've been searching stackoverflow for hours without finding anything that works.
UPDATE: I think some people might get confused with my question. Google developer console accepts javascript command lines. So even though I ask for javascript I will use the code on the google developer console.
UPDATE 2 :
Here is an example of a div I need to delete. Keep in mind I want to copy paste the entire code in the javascript code. Not just identify the div.
<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="declined">
<div class="entry-status-overlay__inner">
<span class="entry-status-overlay__title">Declined</span>
</div>
</div>
It's the data-entry-status="declined" that makes that div unique so I can't just identify the div using an id selector or a class selector. I need to put the entrire thing there and remove it.
I tried:
$('<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="declined"><div class="entry-status-overlay__inner"><span class="entry-status-overlay__title">Declined</span></div></div>').remove();
It didn't remove the div.

Try to search the dom by its outerHTML.
function deleteDomByHtml(html){
html=html.replace(/\s/g,'');
$("*").each(function(){
if(this.outerHTML.replace(/\s/g,'')===html){
$(this).remove();
}
});
}
And try this line on this page:
deleteDomByHtml(`<span class="-img _glyph">Stack Overflow</span>`);

You cannot do by simply pasting the code. That will remove all the div element.
You may need a specific selector like id,class or child to specific parent to remove the element from the dom.
Consider this case the divs have common class but the data-entry-status is different. So you can get the dom using a selector and then check the dataset property.
For demo I have put it inside setTimeout to show the difference. In application you can avoid it
setTimeout(function() {
document.querySelectorAll('.entry-status-overlay').forEach(function(item) {
let getStatus = item.dataset.entryStatus;
if (getStatus === 'declined') {
item.remove()
}
})
}, 2000)
<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="declined">
<div class="entry-status-overlay__inner">
<span class="entry-status-overlay__title">Declined</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="accepted">
<div class="entry-status-overlay__inner">
<span class="entry-status-overlay__title">accepted</span>
</div>
</div>

Just add any attribute with [] and it will remove the element.
$('[class="entry-status-overlay"]').remove();
/*OR*/
$('[data-entry-status="declined"]').remove();
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="declined">
<div class="entry-status-overlay__inner">
<span class="entry-status-overlay__title">Declined</span>
</div>
</div>

function del(){
var h = document.body.outerHTML;
h = h.match('<div>...</div>');
h.length--;
return h;
}
I guess this will work just give it a try... i tried on browser console and it worked, this way you can match the exact you want.

I might as well add my take on this. Try running this in your console and see the question vanish.
// convert the whole page into string
let thePage = document.body.innerHTML,
string = [].map.call( thePage, function(node){
return node.textContent || node.innerText || "";
}).join("");
// I get some string. in this scenario the Question or you can set one yourself
let replacableCode = document.getElementsByClassName('post-layout')[0].innerHTML,
string2 = [].map.call( replacableCode, function(node){
return node.textContent || node.innerText || "";
}).join("");
// replace whole page with the removed innerHTML string with blank
document.body.innerHTML = thePage.replace(replacableCode,'');

If you want to identify divs with that particular data attribute, you can use a data-attribute selector. In the example below, I've used a button and click event to make the demo more visual, but in the console the only line you'd need would be:
$('div[data-entry-status="declined"]').remove();
$(function() {
$("#testbutton").click(function() {
$('div[data-entry-status="declined"]').remove();
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="entry-status-overlay" data-entry-status="declined">
<div class="entry-status-overlay__inner">
<span class="entry-status-overlay__title">Declined</span>
</div>
</div>
<div id="x">Some other div</div>
<button type="button" id="testbutton">Click me to test removing the div</button>
See https://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/attribute-selectors/ for documentation of attribute selectors.
P.S. Your idea to paste some raw HTML into the jQuery constructor and then execute "remove" on it cannot work - you're telling jQuery to create an object based on a HTML string, which is, as far as it's concerned, a new set of HTML. It does not try to match that to something existing on the page, even if that exact HTML is in the DOM somewhere, it pays it no attention. It treats what you just gave it as being totally independent. So then when you run .remove() on that new HTML...that HTML was never added to the page, so it cannot be removed. Therefore .remove() has no effect in that situation.

Check if link (not URL) contain some text (.jpg, .gif, .png)

Just to give an Idea what i'm trying to do here's an example code:
$(function(){
if ($('.maybe > div > a.link:contains(".JPG, .jpg, .gif, .GIF")').length) {
alert('hello');
});
I want to check if the content of some links are containing the dot and the letters of all image extensions, like
<div class="maybe">
<div>
<a class="link" href="someURL">thisIsAnImage.jpg</a>
<a class="link" href="someURL">thisIs**NOT**AnImage.pdf</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="maybe">
<div>
<a class="link" href="someURL">thisIs**NOT**AnImage.zip</a>
<a class="link" href="someURL">thisIsAnotherImage.png</a>
</div>
</div>
The div's and links are generated dynamically by php, so there's no way to know how many links and div's there will be once the page is generated.
How to write the code in a properply way?
Thanks a lot for helping me to resolve the problem.

Here's my first instinct:
$('.maybe .link').each(function () {
if ($(this).text().toLowerCase().match(/\.(jpg|png|gif)/g)) {
console.log("yay I did it");
}
});
Use toLowerCase() on the link text so you don't have to check both lower and upper case. Then use String.match(regex) with a regex group to match all the file extensions.
Hope this helps!
Edit: here's an example in jsfiddle. Open your javascript console to see the output of the console.log statement. http://jsfiddle.net/9Q5yu/1/

I'd suggest:
// selects all the 'a' elements, filters that collection:
var imgLinks = $('a').filter(function(){
// keeps *only* those element with an href that ends in one of the
// file-types (this is naive, however, see notes):
return ['png','gif','jpg'].indexOf(this.href.split('.').pop()) > -1;
});
// I have no idea what you were doing, trying to do, wanting to do or why,
// but please don't use 'alert()', it's a horrible UI:
if (imgLinks.length) {
console.log('hello');
}
The above is a relatively simple, and naive, check; in that it simply splits the href on the . characters and then tests the last element from the array (returned by split()) is equal to one of the elements of the array. This will fail for any image that has a query string, for example, such as http://example.com/image2.png?postValue=1234
Given the clarification in the comments, I'd amend the above to:
var fileTypes = ['png','gif','jpg','gif'],
imgLinks = $('a').filter(function(){
return (new RegExp(fileTypes.join('|') + '$', 'gi')).test($(this).text());
});
References:
JavaScript:
Array.prototype.indexOf().)
[RegExp.prototype.test()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/test
String.prototype.split().
jQuery:
filter()

Why can I not set my data attribute with jQuery?

I have the following:
editCity: "/Admin/Citys/Edit?pk=0001I&rk=5505005Z"
$('#editCity')
.attr('title', "Edit City " + rk)
.data('disabled', 'no')
.data('href', editCity)
.removeClass('disabled');
When I check the HTML with developer tools I see this:
<div class="button dialogLink" id="editCity"
data-action="EditCity" data-disabled="yes"
data-entity="City" title="Edit City 5505005Z" ></div>
Everything is updated except the href. Anyone have an ideas what I am doing wrong?

Use
var editCity = "/Admin/Citys/Edit?pk=0001I&rk=5505005Z";
What you did was a labeled statement, consisting only of a string literal and missing a semicolon.
Btw, jQuery's .data() method is not to be used for data-attributes, but just for associating JS objects with DOM elements.

I think jQuery stores the data internally if they don't exist the first time you set them. If you really want to force it:
$("#editCity").attr("data-href",editCity)

You cannot set a href attribute to a div.
you could use data-href instead, or use a a-tag instead of a div.

Get a value from an attribute and add it as another attribute?

How can I use jQuery to get a string of text from the onclick attribute and set it as the href attribute.
Here's the fiddle I'm working with: http://jsfiddle.net/MBmt5/
I want to take only TrackPackage.asp?track=95213&ship=OTHER&ShippingMethod=3 from the onclick attribute and prop it to an href attribute
So that it would end up looking like this: http://jsfiddle.net/52Nha/
Unfortunately, I have no idea how to accomplish this. Can anybody help me? Must be compatible with jQuery 1.4.2. Thanks.
Update
Of course I'd begin with:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('span.trackpackagebutton').closest('a').removeAttr('href');
});
​

Ugly but I hope this will help you.
$('a').attr('href',
$('a')[0].getAttribute('onclick')
.replace("window.open('", '').split(',')[0].replace("'", ''))
.removeAttr('onclick');​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Working demo - http://jsfiddle.net/MBmt5/5/
Note: Based on your markup structure you can use the right selector and reuse the above code.
E.g: The below code will execute this logic for all the anchors on the page which have onclick attribute which has window.open.
$('a[onclick^="window.open"]').each(function(){
$(this).attr('href',
this.getAttribute('onclick')
.replace("window.open('", '').split(',')[0].replace("'", ''))
.removeAttr('onclick');​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
});

Here's one way:
http://jsfiddle.net/MBmt5/2/

http://jsfiddle.net/GaZGv/1
var $a = $('span.trackpackagebutton').closest('a');
var href = $a.attr('onclick').split('(')[1].split(',')[0].replace(/'/g, '');
$a.attr('href', href).removeAttr('onclick');
alert(href)​

JQuery Copy text & paste into textarea

I've created a javascript function that will take a hidden span, copy the text within that span and insert it into a single textarea tag on a website. I've written a function in JavaScript that does this (well, kinda, only after a few clicks), but I know there's a better way - any thoughts? The behavior is similar to a Retweet for twitter, but using sections of a post on a blog instead. Oh, and I'm also calling out to jquery in the header.
<script type="text/javascript">
function repost_submit(postID) {
$("#repost-" + postID).click(function(){
$("#cat_post_box").empty();
var str = $("span#repost_msg-" + postID).text();
$("#cat_post_box").text(str);
});
}
</script>

Based on the comment in your question, I am assuming you have something like this in your HTML:
copy post
And I am also assuming that because you are passing a post ID there can be more than one per page.
Part of the beauty of jQuery is that you can do really cool stuff to sets of elements without having to use inline Javascript events. These are considered a bad practice nowadays, as it is best to separate Javascript from your presentation code.
The proper way, then, would be to do something like this:
<a href="#" id='copy-5' class='copy_link'>copy post</a>
And then you can have many more that look similar:
<a href="#" id='copy-5' class='copy_link'>copy post</a>
<a href="#" id='copy-6' class='copy_link'>copy post</a>
<a href="#" id='copy-7' class='copy_link'>copy post</a>
Finally, you can write code with jQuery to do something like this:
$(function() { // wait for the DOM to be ready
$('a.copy_link').click(function() { // whenever a copy link is clicked...
var id = this.id.split('-').pop(); // get the id of the post
var str = $('#repost_msg-' + id); // span not required, since it is an ID lookup
$('#cat_post_box').val(str); // empty not required, and val() is the proper way to change the value of an input element (even textareas)
return false;
});
});
This is the best way to do it even if there is only one post in the page. Part of the problem with your code is that on the first click it BINDS the function, and in the subsequent clicks is when it finally gets called. You could go for a quick and dirty fix by changing that around to just be in document.ready.

$("#repost-" + postID).click(function(){
$("#cat_post_box").val(''); // Instead of empty() - because empty remove all children from a element.
$("#cat_post_box").text($("#repost_msg-" + postID).text());//span isn't required because you have and id. so the selector is as efficient as it can be.
});
And wrap everything in a $(document).ready(function(){ /Insert the code here/ }) so that it will bind to $("#repost-" + postID) button or link when the DOM is loaded.

I had a problem with Paolo's example when I clicked on the link the text that appeared in #cat_post_box was "object Object". Once I added ".text()" to the end of that statement I worked.
var str = $('#repost_msg-' + id).text();
Thanks for you example Paolo!