title: jQuery find and replace <strong> tags before appendTo
body: <pre><code>$("body").on("click", ".search-results li", function(){
  
      $(this).appendTo(".creating-wrapper .recipients");
  
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to remove <code>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</code> tags which are applied to the text when a user performs a search. </p>
  
  <p>The html being appended looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;li class="highlight-off" rel="&lt;?php echo $userID?&gt;"&gt;
      &lt;div class="left"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="&lt;?php echo photo($userID, 35)?&gt;"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="right"&gt;
          &lt;div class="name"&gt;&lt;?php echo highlight($term,  str_replace("&amp;nbsp;"," ", name($userID)))?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/li&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, one other thing I would also like to do in addition, would be to remove the entire <code>&lt;div class='left'&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</code> and its elements</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>