HTMLTableElement: deleteRow() method

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The HTMLTableElement.deleteRow() method removes a specific row (<tr>) from a given <table>.

Syntax

deleteRow(index)

Parameters

index: index is an integer representing the row that should be deleted. However, the special index -1 can be used to remove the very last row of a table.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

IndexSizeError DOMException: Thrown if index is greater than or equal to the number of available rows or is a negative value other than -1.

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's second row.

HTML

html

<table>
  <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>
</table>

JavaScript

let table = document.querySelector("table");

// Delete second row
table.deleteRow(1);

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-table-deleterow-dev