Tryit Editor v1.8

Source Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("button").click(function(){
    $("p").remove(".italic");
  });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is a paragraph in the div.</p>
<p class="italic"><i>This is another paragraph in the div.</i></p>
<p class="italic"><i>This is another paragraph in the div.</i></p>
<button>Remove all p elements with class="italic"</button>

</body>
</html>

Result:

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