How do I remove table rows(Except the 1st row) from a populating table?
<p>I have a table that returns results from a search.  When the user search for something else, the same results exist and the table is just populating the data without removing the previous search.  This is all on a JSON result action with no postback so the page is not reloaded.  When the page is refreshed, I get an empty table.  I tried using the following code.</p>

<pre><code>$('searchTable').find("tr:gt(0)").remove();
$('searchTable').children('tr:not(:first)').remove();
$('searchTable td').parent().remove();
</code></pre>

<p>on the following table</p>

<pre><code>&lt;table id="searchTable"&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th&gt;Address&lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th&gt;IdNumber&lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th&gt;Status&lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;th&gt;Date&lt;/th&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;        
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td class="name"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="address"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="idNum"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="status"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td class="date"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>How do I remove the previous search results before I go to my JSON response?</p>
