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();