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Deleting a DOM element in Javascript

rolf
Mar 28, 2014
Post #1 Friday, March 28, 2014 1:42 PM

I just thought this was kind of funny...
This is the only way I know of to have DOM element (here "image") delete itself, using JavaScript:

image.parentNode.removeChild(image);

Since there is not delete() method or anything like that on the element itself, as per DOM specs, you have to invoke the removeChild() method of the parent...

Deleting a DOM element in Javascript

rolf

I just thought this was kind of funny...
This is the only way I know of to have DOM element (here "image") delete itself, using JavaScript:

image.parentNode.removeChild(image);

Since there is not delete() method or anything like that on the element itself, as per DOM specs, you have to invoke the removeChild() method of the parent...