How to remove flash component completely in IE?

Question

We are developing a flex component, which will appear only after user login. Now the problem is am using

if ($('#flashComponentId').length > 0) 
    $('#flashComponentId').remove();

to remove the flash component completely from the page. This is working perfectly fine in all browsers except IE . I cant remove the parent div of the flash component as it has included other child divs. So how can i do remove the component completely in IE?

Answer 1

You can do this:

$("#containingDiv embed").remove();
$("#containingDiv object").remove();

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/DRxW4/