HTMLTableElement: deleteRow() method
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The deleteRow() method of the HTMLTableElement interface removes a specific row (<tr>) from a given <table>.
Syntax
js
deleteRow(index)
Parameters
Return value
None (undefined).
Exceptions
IndexSizeErrorDOMException-
Thrown if
indexis greater than or equal to the number of rows or smaller than-1.
Examples
This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's second row.
HTML
html
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1.1</td>
<td>Cell 1.2</td>
<td>Cell 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cell 2.1</td>
<td>Cell 2.2</td>
<td>Cell 2.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cell 3.1</td>
<td>Cell 3.2</td>
<td>Cell 3.3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
JavaScript
js
const table = document.querySelector("table");
// Delete second row
table.deleteRow(1);
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-table-deleterow-dev |