DOMTokenList: 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.
Theremove() method of theDOMTokenList interfaceremoves the specifiedtokens from the list.
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Syntax
remove(token1)remove(token1, token2)remove(token1, token2, /* …, */ tokenN)Parameters
token1, …,tokenNA string representing the token you want to remove from the list.If the string is not in the list, no error is thrown, and nothing happens.
Return value
None (undefined).
Examples
In the following example we retrieve the list of classes set on a<span> element as aDOMTokenList usingElement.classList. We then remove a token from the list, and write thelist into the<span>'sNode.textContent.
First, the HTML:
<span></span> <span></span>Now the #"ab");const classes = span.classList;classes.remove("c");span.textContent = classes;
To remove multiple classes at once, you can supply multiple tokens. The order yousupply the tokens doesn't have to match the order they appear in the list:
const span2 = document.getElementById("a");const classes2 = span2.classList;classes2.remove("c", "b");span2.textContent = classes2;The output looks like this:
Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM> # ref-for-dom-domtokenlist-remove①> |