HTML DOM Range deleteContents() Method

The deleteContents() method deletes all the contents of the Range from the Document tree.

Syntax:

range.deleteContents()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return value: This method does not return any value.

Example: This example describes how to delete the current range from the document tree.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
 
<head>

    <title>

        HTML DOM range deleteContents() method

    </title>

</head>
 
<body>

    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
<p>This is the range content.</p>
 
    <button onclick="del()">

        Click to delete

    </button>
 
    <script>

        var range = document.createRange();

        range.selectNode(document

            .getElementsByTagName("p").item(0));

        function del() {

            range.deleteContents();

        }

    </script>

</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Before Click the Button:

After Click the Button:

Supported Browsers:

Google Chrome 1
Edge 12
Firefox 1
Safari 1
Opera 9
Internet Explorer 9

Article Tags :

HTML

Web Technologies

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