Element: remove() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Element.remove() method removes the element from the DOM.

Syntax

js
remove()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

Using remove()

html
<div id="div-01">Here is div-01</div>
<div id="div-02">Here is div-02</div>
<div id="div-03">Here is div-03</div>
js
const element = document.getElementById("div-02");
element.remove(); // Removes the div with the 'div-02' id

Element.remove() is unscopable

The remove() method is not scoped into the with statement. See Symbol.unscopables for more information.

js
with (node) {
  remove();
}
// ReferenceError: remove is not defined

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-childnode-remove①

Browser compatibility

See also