Name

removeNamedItem: name

Synopsis

Removes the Node object with the nodeName property that matches the name parameter and returns a reference to the removed object. If the node you plan to remove is an Attr node and if it has a defined default value, the node will be replaced immediately with a new Node object set to the default value.

Argument

name: DOMString

The nodeName value of the node to be removed.

Exception

NOT_FOUND_ERR

Raised if no node matching the name parameter is found in the map.

Java binding

public Node removeNamedItem(String name) throws DOMException;

Java example

// Remove the ID node attribute
NamedNodeMap nnm = elem.getAttributes( );
     
if (nnm.removeNamedItem("id") =  = null) {
    System.err.println("no ID attribute found");
}