DOM: Remove HTML Element

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Here's how to remove an HTML/XML element.

const x = document.getElementById("i10231");

x.parentNode.removeChild(x);

Remove All Children

To remove all children of a node, you can use innerHTML.

const t = document. getElementById ("abc");

// remove all children
t.innerHTML = '';

[see DOM: Difference Between textContent, innerHTML, innerText, nodeValue]

DOM How-To

  1. DOM: Basic DOM Methods
  2. Get Elements by ID, Tag, Name, Class, CSS Selector
  3. Change CSS
  4. Change Node Content
  5. Create/Insert Node
  6. Remove Node
  7. Get Element's Attribute Value
  8. Set Element's Attribute Value
  9. Remove Element's Attribute Value
  10. List/Add/Remove Class Attribute
  11. Add/Remove Event Handler
  12. DOM: Navigate DOM Tree
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