HTMLSelectElement: 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.
TheHTMLSelectElement.remove() method removes the elementat the specified index from the options collection for this select element.
Syntax
js
remove(index)Parameters
indexA zero-based integer for the index of the
HTMLOptionElementto remove from the collection. If the index is not found the method has no effect.
Return value
None (undefined).
Examples
html
<select name="existingList"> <option value="1">Option: Value 1</option> <option value="2">Option: Value 2</option> <option value="3">Option: Value 3</option></select>js
let sel = document.getElementById("existingList");sel.remove(1);HTML is now:
html
<select name="existingList"> <option value="1">Option: Value 1</option> <option value="3">Option: Value 3</option></select>Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # dom-select-remove |
Browser compatibility
See also
Element.remove, the method that gets called when remove is calledwithout arguments on aHTMLSelectElement.HTMLSelectElementthat implements it.