Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Empty a DOM element

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Short snippet of JavaScript to empty an HTML DOM element without memory leak:

while(el.lastChild) delete el.removeChild(el.lastChild);
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Written by Maxime Thirouin

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zaus

looks similar to jQuery('something').empty().

search for empty: function in the source to see how they do it

over 1 year ago ·
moox

@zaus jQuery.fn.empty()use a private method now https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/5179fa00b839ebc70ec38fb0cf6cb8f8c412f37e/src/manipulation.js#L96
But it use the same while trick not so long ago.

over 1 year ago ·
zaus

that's what i thought i was pointing to -- your ref is newer than latest, so it's a little different. i was only mentioning it as a comparison between your tip and how jQuery does it.

over 1 year ago ·

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