CharacterData: replaceWith() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.

The replaceWith() method of the CharacterData interface replaces this node in the children list of its parent with a set of Node objects or string.

Strings are inserted as Text nodes; the string is being passed as argument to the Text() constructor.

Syntax

js
replaceWith(...nodes)

Parameters

nodes Optional

A comma-separated list of Node objects or strings that will replace the current node.

Note: If no arguments are passed in, this method removes the node from the DOM tree.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

HierarchyRequestError DOMException

Thrown when the node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy.

Examples

html
<p id="myText">Some text</p>
js
let text = document.getElementById("myText").firstChild;
let em = document.createElement("em");
em.textContent = "Italic text";
text.replaceWith(em); // Replace `Some text` by `Italic text`

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-childnode-replacewith①

Browser compatibility

See also