662
votes

Is there any better way to rewrite this:

$('element').removeClass('class1').removeClass('class2');

I cannot use removeClass(); as it would remove ALL classes, which I don't want.

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8 Answers

1200
votes
$("element").removeClass("class1 class2");

From removeClass(), the class parameter:

One or more CSS classes to remove from the elements, these are separated by spaces.

73
votes

$('element').removeClass('class1 class2');

Here are the docs.

20
votes

jQuery .removeClass() documentation.

One or more CSS classes to remove from the elements, these are separated by spaces.

18
votes

The documentation says:

class (Optional) String
One or more CSS classes to remove from the elements, these are separated by spaces.

Example:

Remove the class 'blue' and 'under' from the matched elements.

$("p:odd").removeClass("blue under");
12
votes

There are many ways can do that!

jQuery

  1. remove all class
    $("element").removeClass();
    OR
    $("#item").removeAttr('class');
    OR
    $("#item").attr('class', '');
    OR
    $('#item')[0].className = '';

  2. remove multi class
    $("element").removeClass("class1 ... classn");
    OR
    $("element").removeClass("class1").removeClass("...").removeClass("classn");

Vanilla Javascript

  1. remove all class

// remove all items all class  
const items = document.querySelectorAll('item');
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    items[i].className = '';
}
  1. remove multi class

// only remove all class of first item
const item1 = document.querySelector('item');
item1.className = '';
4
votes

Separate classes by white space

$('element').removeClass('class1 class2');
2
votes

You must be separate those classes which you want to remove by white space$('selector').removeClass('class1 class2');

1
votes

Since jQuery 3.3.0, it is possible to pass arrays to .addClass(), .removeClass() and toggleClass(), which makes it easier if there is any logic which determines which classes should be added or removed, as you don't need to mess around with the space-delimited strings.

$("div").removeClass(["class1", "class2"]);