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DOMTokenList: remove() method

The remove() method of the DOMTokenList interface removes the specified tokens from the list.

Syntax

js

remove(token1)
remove(token1, token2)
remove(token1, token2, /* …, */ tokenN)

Parameters

token1, …, tokenN

A string representing the token you want to remove from the list. If the string is not in the list, no error is thrown, and nothing happens.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

In the following example we retrieve the list of classes set on a <span> element as a DOMTokenList using Element.classList. We then remove a token from the list, and write the list into the <span>'s Node.textContent.

First, the HTML:

html

<div id="ab" class="a b c"></div>
<div id="a" class="a b c"></div>

Now the JavaScript:

js

const span = document.getElementById("ab");
const classes = span.classList;
classes.remove("c");
span.textContent = classes;

To remove multiple classes at once, you can supply multiple tokens. The order you supply the tokens doesn't have to match the order they appear in the list:

js

const span2 = document.getElementById("a");
const classes2 = span2.classList;

classes2.remove("c", "b");
span2.textContent = classes2;

The output looks like this:

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
remove 8 12 3.6 10 ≤12.1 5.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 5 1.0
multiple_parameters 24 12 26 No 15 7 4.4 25 26 14 7 1.5

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