http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:40:28 GMT DZone Snippets: removeChild code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5800 This JavaScript snippet removes an HTML element from it's parent node. <br /> <br /><code> <br /> list_row = document.getElementById('record' + id); <br /> list_row.parentNode.removeChild(list_row); <br /></code> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:00:24 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5800 jrobertson (James Robertson) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2598 You can remove existing nodes as well as add new ones. The removeChild method allows any node to remove one of its child nodes. Simply pass a reference to the node you wish to remove. Any text or elements within the node being removed will be removed along with it. <br /> <br /><code> <br /><script type="text/javascript"> <br /> <br />function removeBElm(){ <br /> <br /> var para = document.getElementById("example2"); <br /> <br /> var boldElm = document.getElementById("example2B"); <br /> <br /> var removed = para.removeChild(boldElm); <br /> <br />} <br /></script> <br /></code> <br /> <br /><code> <br /><p id="example2"><a href="#" onclick="removeBElm(); return false;">Click this link</a> to see the above script in action.</p> <br /></code> Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:50:11 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2598 bradalyst (brad)