DHTML Methods

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DOM Level 1 Specification.

Removes a child node from an element.

object.removeChild ( oNode ) 

oNode

Required. The element to be removed from the document.

Returns the node removed.

The node to be removed must be an immediate child of the parent object. An exception occurs when oNode is not a child of this node, or when the specified oNode is read-only and cannot be removed.

This sample demonstrates removing a bold element from a div using the removeChild method.

<div id=Div1 onclick="removeElement ( )">
  Click anywhere in this sentence to remove this 
    <b>Bold</b> word.</div>
<script language="JavaScript">
function removeElement ( ) {
try {
var oChild=Div1.children ( 0 );
Div1.removeChild ( oChild );
}
catch ( x ) {
alert ( "You have already removed the bold element. 
  Page will be refreshed when you click OK." )
document.location.reload ( );}
}
</script>

appendChild, replaceChild