22711 2013-07-17 09:50:41 +0000 Add a .empty method to the ParentNode (or the Node?) interface 2014-02-12 20:10:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG DOM unspecified PC All RESOLVED DUPLICATE 17426 P2 normal --- 1 bruant.d annevk mike mounir syoichi www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 90835 0 bruant.d 2013-07-17 09:50:41 +0000 Pretty much the standard equivalent of http://api.jquery.com/empty/ Currently, one has to do something like: element.innerHTML = ''; 90841 1 annevk 2013-07-17 13:54:22 +0000 What's wrong with .textContent = ""? See also bug 17426 and http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20120605#l-780 91353 2 bruant.d 2013-07-28 11:06:27 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > What's wrong with .textContent = ""? As much as there is something wrong with node.parentNode.removeChild(node). It's doesn't say what it means. Not everyone is expert enough in the DOM aware of the textContent="" trick and some people just traverse all childNodes to remove them one by one. > See also bug 17426 and > http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20120605#l-780 I'm not sure I understand what I should be seeing there. People seem to agree, no? (I'll let others debate on the chaining aspect, I just want the .empty()) 100434 3 annevk 2014-02-12 20:10:12 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17426 ***