FontFaceSet: delete() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The delete() method of the FontFaceSet interface removes a font from the set.

Font faces that were added to the set using the CSS @font-face rule remain connected to the corresponding CSS, and cannot be deleted.

Syntax

js
delete(font)

Parameters

font

A FontFace to be removed from the set.

Return value

A boolean value which is true if the deletion was successful, and false otherwise.

Examples

In the following example a new FontFace object is created and then deleted from the FontFaceSet.

js
const font = new FontFace("MyFont", "url(myFont.woff2)");
document.fonts.delete(font);

Specifications

Specification
CSS Font Loading Module Level 3
# dom-fontfaceset-delete

Browser compatibility

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