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DocumentFragment: replaceChildren() method

The DocumentFragment.replaceChildren() method replaces the existing children of a DocumentFragment with a specified new set of children. These can be string or Node objects.

Syntax

js

replaceChildren(param1)
replaceChildren(param1, param2)
replaceChildren(param1, param2, /* …, */ paramN)

Parameters

param1, …, paramN

A set of Node or string objects to replace the DocumentFragment's existing children with. If no replacement objects are specified, then the DocumentFragment is emptied of all child nodes.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

Examples

Emptying a document fragment

replaceChildren() provides a very convenient mechanism for emptying a document fragment of all its children. You call it on the document fragment without any argument specified:

js

let fragment = new DocumentFragment();
let div = document.createElement("div");
let p = document.createElement("p");
fragment.append(p);
fragment.prepend(div);

fragment.children; // HTMLCollection [<div>, <p>]

fragment.replaceChildren();

fragment.children; // HTMLCollection []

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
replaceChildren 86 86 78 No 72 14 86 86 79 61 14 14.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DocumentFragment/replaceChildren