Remove element by the text inside

Question

how can I remove an element using jquery by the text in the element.

<a href="/">Link1</a>

I dont want to remove the element by class or ID. I want to do something like this:

$('a').html('Link1').remove()

Can you help me with this?

Answer 1

Please try this

jQuery

$('a:contains("Link1")').remove();

Demo fiddle

For more reference please refer this.