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XML DOM removeChild () method

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Definition and Usage

removeChild () method to remove child nodes.

If successful, the function returns a node is removed, and if it fails it returns NULL.

grammar

elementNode.removeChild(node)

参数 描述
node 必需。规定要删除的子节点。

Examples

The following code fragment uses loadXMLDoc () to " the Books.xml " into xmlDoc, and remove the first <book> children of a node:

Examples

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
x=xmlDoc.documentElement.removeChild(y);

document.write("Removed node: " + x.nodeName);

Output:

Node removed: book

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