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Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?

From Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?
Date 2013-06-20 00:57 +0200
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Am 19.06.2013 22:57, justaguy meinte:
> On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:14:09 PM UTC-4, justaguy wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I have this DIV below,
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>> <DIV id="workspace"> ... lots of dynamically generated objects here... </DIV>
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>> Now, i want this div to be empty, and attempted with document.getElementById('workspace').textContent = '' with no effects.
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>> What's the correct syntax?
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>> Thanks.
>
> I now have a better syntax,
> var node = document.getElementById('workspace');
> while (node.hasChildNodes()) {node.removeChild();};
>
> But still, it does not remove all the newly inserted objects inside the 'workspace' DIV, how come?

Maybe because element.removeChild() requires the node to be removed as 
an argument?

Gregor

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How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2013-06-19 11:14 -0700
  Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-19 20:36 +0200
    Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-06-20 19:52 +0100
      Perfect Parlance (was: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?) Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-21 01:25 +0200
        Re: Perfect Parlance (was: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-06-21 09:41 +0200
          Re: Perfect Parlance Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-06-28 23:56 +0200
            Re: Perfect Parlance "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-06-29 00:19 +0200
            Re: Perfect Parlance "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-06-29 01:20 +0300
        Re: Perfect Parlance (was: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?) Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-06-21 12:52 -0700
          Re: Perfect Parlance (was: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?) John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-06-24 21:03 +0100
            Re: Perfect Parlance (was: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV?) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-06-25 10:50 +0200
  Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2013-06-19 13:57 -0700
    Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-06-20 05:20 +0700
    Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2013-06-20 00:57 +0200
      Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-20 01:16 +0200
      Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2013-06-19 17:21 -0700
        Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2013-06-19 17:39 -0700
          Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-20 15:27 +0000
            Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-20 18:15 +0200
              Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2013-06-20 21:01 -0300
  Re: How to clear/remove all the objects in a DIV? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2013-06-20 07:05 -0700

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