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jQuery empty() doesn't tell you if something is blank, it tells you whether something is truly empty - having no other nodes inside it. This function tells whether a string is blank. It returns true in cases where there are no printable text characters are in the string.
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function isBlank(str){
return str.replace(/\W/gi, '') == '';
}
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