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HTML
<div id="description">
TEXT I WANT REMOVED
<p>Keep this text</p>
<p>Keep this too</p>
</div>
CSS
div{color:blue;}
p{color:red;}
JavaScript
var html = $('#description p').map(function(){
return $(this)[0].outerHTML;
}).get();
$('#description').html(html);