remove <div class=“textwidget”> from text-widget

Question

When you add a text widget to a sidebar in Wordpress the widget includes this code

<div class="textwidget">

How do I remove this without editing the core?

FYI - I think this line is located here: wp-includes/default-widgets.php (line 383)

Answer 1

If you're looking to remove the actual div with the textwidget class applied to it but not it's content, this is a simple method using jQuery:

$('.textwidget').replaceWith($('.textwidget').contents());

Answer 2

As per the comment, in the case it is probably better to just remove or replace the class name using jQuery then a php function, since that class is hardcoded anyhow.

To remove it.

jQuery('.textwidget').remove();

To set the css to hide it.

jQuery('.textwidget').css('display', 'none');

To change the class name

jQuery('.textwidget').attr('class', 'newName');

Answer 3

You can use output buffering (http://php.net/manual/es/book.outcontrol.php) to get the whole generated page in a variable and remove the offending before echoing.

But it seems overly complicated for this case. You can just copy all the widget code and create a new widget (in a plugin or your functions.php) without that hardcoded div. It's really not that much code.

Also, any reason to remove that div that can not be solved in css?