JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by epilektric

HTML

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
<div class="nav-menu">
    <ul>
        <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.example.com/page-1/">Page 1 (empty)</a>
            <ul>
                <li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.example.com/page-2/">Page 2</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

JavaScript

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $('.nav-menu ul .page_item').each(function() {
        var link = $(this).children('a');
        var str = link.text();
        if (str.toLowerCase().indexOf("(empty)") >= 0) {
            var link_text = str.replace('(empty)','');
            link.attr('href','#').text(link_text);
        }
    });
});