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HTML
Some text and code
<span id="sc_start_commenttext-330"></span>I shall disappear!<span id="sc_end_commenttext-330"></span>
Some Text and code
JavaScript
var $spans = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
var str = "";
for(var i = 0, $span, $sibling; i < $spans.length; ++i) {
$span = $spans[i];
if(/^sc_start_commenttext/i.test($span.id)) {
while($sibling = $span.nextSibling) {
if(/^sc_end_commenttext/i.test($sibling.id)) {
break;
}
str += $sibling.data;
$span.parentNode.removeChild($sibling);
}
}
}
console.log(str);