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CharacterData: replaceWith() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨April 2018⁩.

The replaceWith() method of the CharacterData interface replaces this node in the children list of its parent with a set of Node objects or string.

Strings are inserted as Text nodes; the string is being passed as argument to the Text() constructor.

Syntax

replaceWith(...nodes)

Parameters

nodes Optional: A comma-separated list of Node objects or strings that will replace the current node.

Note: If no arguments are passed in, this method removes the node from the DOM tree.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

HierarchyRequestError DOMException: Thrown when the node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy.

Examples

<p id="myText">Some text</p>

let text = document.getElementById("myText").firstChild;
let em = document.createElement("em");
em.textContent = "Italic text";

text.replaceWith(em); // Replace `Some text` by `Italic text`

Specifications

Specification
DOM> # ref-for-dom-childnode-replacewith①>

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`replaceWith`	54	17	49	39	10	54	49	41	10	6.0	54	10