Javascript: Element Suicide

A short tip on js suicide. Suicide? Well.. I mean have an element remove itself. I came across this a while ago: a ‘read more’ link which should set the display property of an element to ‘block’ and remove itself completely from the DOM. Plain javascript, no frameworks. Here’s what I came to:

this.parentNode.removeChild(this);

It doesn’t require an id, name or anything else. Furthermore it doesn’t even require its parent to have and id! This may be dumb, but I love it!

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Konstantin Kovshenin

WordPress Core Contributor, ex-Automattician, public speaker and consultant, enjoying life in Moscow. I blog about tech, WordPress and DevOps.

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