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HTML

<div id="thisdiv" class="class1 class2 class3 class4 class5"> text </div>

JavaScript

$.fn.removeAllClass = function(after, before) {
    $(this).attr('class', function(i, oldClass) {
        var arr = oldClass.split(' ');
        if (!before) {
            arr.splice(arr.indexOf(after) + 1).join(' ');
            return arr.join(' ');
        } else {
            return arr.slice(arr.indexOf(after), arr.indexOf(before) + 1).join(' ');
        }
    });
}

$('#thisdiv').removeAllClass('class1', 'class3');