Remove span tag in string using jquery

If this is definitely just stored as a string you can do the following...

var element = $(myString);//convert string to JQuery element
element.find("span").remove();//remove span elements
var newString = element.html();//get back new string

if in fact this is already rendered html in your page then just do...

$("span").remove();//remove span elements (all spans on page as this code stands)

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If you want to keep the contents of the span tag you can try this...

var element = $(myString);//convert string to JQuery element
element.find("span").each(function(index) {
    var text = $(this).text();//get span content
    $(this).replaceWith(text);//replace all span with just content
});
var newString = element.html();//get back new string

Here is a working example (you will see two alerts: string at start, string at end)

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You can also just do this which might get the result you need:

var justText = $(myString).text();

This way you can keep inner text of the span by using .contents() jquery method (example of my code below):

$('#navc-22 > a > span').contents().unwrap();