== .empty ==

.empty()

Deletes all the element’s child nodes.

Usage:: [[mdn>Web/API/HTMLElement|HTMLElement]] = Element.''empty''()
Member of:: [[mdn>Web/API/HTMLElement|HTMLElement]]
Parameters:: none
Returns:: The [[mdn>Web/API/HTMLElement|HTMLElement]] it was called on, thus allowing for command chaining.

===== Examples ===== A simple example could look like this:


document.getElementById('foo').empty();

===== More information ===== * [[mdn>Web/API/Node/removeChild|Node: removeChild() method]] on MDN.