Remove Elements by div id

Hi All,

I’m converting a HTML site to WordPress and I’m faced with importing the sidebar on every page. I’m using WordPress Import 2 plugin with good success on other sites but here I can’t seem to avoid importing the sidebar with every page.

I could have a solution if I can selectively remove a particular div id I could make it work. I “think” I need some jQuery script to remove it before the closing /body tag though I’m honestly not sure.

Here is the source of the page:

<div id="columnMain">
<div id="contentLeft">
CONTENT HERE
</div>
<div id="containerPageTitle">
<h1 id="pageTitle">Criminal Defense Lawyers</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">

and here is what I was using before /body:

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#contentLeft").remove();
});
<script>

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Any help is appreciated.

Eric