What is the best way to remove a table row with jQuery?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/170997

  •  05-07-2019
  •  | 
  •  

Question

What is the best method for removing a table row with jQuery?

Was it helpful?

Solution

You're right:

$('#myTableRow').remove();

This works fine if your row has an id, such as:

<tr id="myTableRow"><td>blah</td></tr>

If you don't have an id, you can use any of jQuery's plethora of selectors.

OTHER TIPS

$('#myTable tr').click(function(){
    $(this).remove();
    return false;
});

Assuming you have a button/link inside of a data cell in your table, something like this would do the trick...

$(".delete").live('click', function(event) {
    $(this).parent().parent().remove();
});

This will remove the parent of the parent of the button/link that is clicked. You need to use parent() because it is a jQuery object, not a normal DOM object, and you need to use parent() twice, because the button lives inside a data cell, which lives inside a row....which is what you want to remove. $(this) is the button clicked, so simply having something like this will remove only the button:

$(this).remove();

While this will remove the data cell:

    $(this).parent().remove();

If you want to simply click anywhere on the row to remove it something like this would work. You could easily modify this to prompt the user or work only on a double-click:

$(".delete").live('click', function(event) {
    $(this).parent().remove();
});

Hope that helps...I struggled on this a bit myself.

You can use:

$($(this).closest("tr"))

for finding the parent table row of an element.

It is more elegant than parent().parent() which is what I started out doing and soon learnt the error of my ways.

--Edit -- Someone pointed out that the question was about removing the row...

$($(this).closest("tr")).remove()

As pointed out below you can simply do:

$(this).closest('tr').remove();

A similar code snippet can be used for many operations such as firing events on multiple elements.

Easy.. Try this

$("table td img.delete").click(function () {
    $(this).parent().parent().parent().fadeTo(400, 0, function () { 
        $(this).remove();
    });
    return false;
});

Is the following acceptable:

$('#myTableRow').remove();

function removeRow(row) {
    $(row).remove();
}

<tr onmousedown="removeRow(this)"><td>Foo</td></tr>

Maybe something like this could work as well? I haven't tried doing something with "this", so I don't know if it works or not.

All you have to do is to remove the table row (<tr>) tag from your table. For example here is the code to remove the last row from the table:

$('#myTable tr:last').remove();

*Code above was taken from this jQuery Howto post.

try this for size

$(this).parents('tr').first().remove();

full listing:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('.deleteRowButton').click(DeleteRow);
      });

    function DeleteRow()
    {
      $(this).parents('tr').first().remove();
    }
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <table>
    <tr><td>foo</td>
     <td><a class="deleteRowButton">delete row</a></td></tr>
    <tr><td>bar bar</td>
     <td><a class="deleteRowButton">delete row</a></td></tr>
    <tr><td>bazmati</td>
     <td><a class="deleteRowButton">delete row</a></td></tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>

see it in action

Another one by empty() :

$(this).closest('tr').empty();

If the row you want to delete might change you can use this. Just pass this function the row # you wish to delete.

function removeMyRow(docRowCount){
   $('table tr').eq(docRowCount).remove();
}

$('tr').click(function()
 {
  $(this).remove();
 });

i think you will try the above code, as it work, but i don't know why it work for sometime and then the whole table is removed. i am also trying to remove the row by click the row. but could not find exact answer.

if you have HTML like this 

<tr>
 <td><span class="spanUser" userid="123"></span></td>
 <td><span class="spanUser" userid="123"></span></td>
</tr>

where userid="123" is a custom attribute that you can populate dynamically when you build the table,

you can use something like 

  $(".spanUser").live("click", function () {

        var span = $(this);   
        var userid = $(this).attr('userid');

        var currentURL = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host;
        var url = currentURL + "/Account/DeleteUser/" + userid;

        $.post(url, function (data) {
          if (data) {
                   var tdTAG = span.parent(); // GET PARENT OF SPAN TAG
                   var trTAG = tdTAG.parent(); // GET PARENT OF TD TAG
                   trTAG.remove(); // DELETE TR TAG == DELETE AN ENTIRE TABLE ROW 
             } else {
                alert('Sorry, there is some error.');
            }
        }); 

     });

So in that case you don't know the class or id of the TR tag but anyway you are able to delete it.

I appreciate this is an old post, but I was looking to do the same, and found the accepted answer didn't work for me. Assuming JQuery has moved on since this was written.

Anyhow, I found the following worked for me:

$('#resultstbl tr[id=nameoftr]').remove();

Not sure if this helps anyone. My example above was part of a larger function so not wrapped it in an event listener.

If you are using Bootstrap Tables

add this code snippet to your bootstrap_table.js

BootstrapTable.prototype.removeRow = function (params) {
    if (!params.hasOwnProperty('index')) {
        return;
    }

    var len = this.options.data.length;

    if ((params.index > len) || (params.index < 0)){
        return;
    }

    this.options.data.splice(params.index, 1);

    if (len === this.options.data.length) {
        return;
    }

    this.initSearch();
    this.initPagination();
    this.initBody(true);
};

Then in your var allowedMethods = [

add 'removeRow'

Finally you can use $("#your-table").bootstrapTable('removeRow',{index:1});

Credits to this post

id is not a good selector now. You can define some properties on the rows. And you can use them as selector.

<tr category="petshop" type="fish"><td>little fish</td></tr>
<tr category="petshop" type="dog"><td>little dog</td></tr>
<tr category="toys" type="lego"><td>lego starwars</td></tr>

and you can use a func to select the row like this (ES6):

const rowRemover = (category,type)=>{
   $(`tr[category=${category}][type=${type}]`).remove();
}

rowRemover('petshop','fish');
Licensed under: CC-BY-SA with attribution
Not affiliated with StackOverflow
scroll top