SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
<table id="searchTable">
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Address</th>
        <th>IdNumber</th>
        <th>Status</th>
        <th>Date</th>
    </tr>        
    <tr>
        <td class="name">test</td>
        <td class="address">test</td>
        <td class="idNum">test</td>
        <td class="status">test</td>
        <td class="date">test</td>
    </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

$('#searchTable tr:gt(0)').remove();