I have written the following code. But it is removing only not <br>
var docDesc = docDescription.replace(/( )*/g,);
var docDesc1 = docDescription.replace(/(<br>)*/g,);
You can achieve removing <br> with CSS alone:
#some_element br {
display: none;
}
If that doesn't fit your needs, and you want to really delete each <br>, it depends, if docDescription is really a string (then one of the above solutions should work, notably Matt Blaine's) or a DOM node. In the latter case, you have to loop through the br elements:
//jquery method:
$('br').remove();
// plain JS:
var brs = common_parent_element.getElementsByTagName('br');
while (brs.length) {
brs[0].parentNode.removeChild(brs[0]);
}
Edit: Why Matt Baline's suggestion? Because he also handles the case, where the <br> appears in an XHTML context with closing slash. However, more complete would be this:
/<br[^>]*>/
