Remove dom element without knowing its parent?

May 19, 2023 by Tarik

You should be able to get the parent of the element, then remove the element from that

function removeElement(el) {
el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
}

Update

You can set this as a new method on the HTMLElement:

HTMLElement.prototype.remove = function() { this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return this; }

And then do el.remove() (which will also return the element)