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Removing <link> element with jQuery?

Answer 1

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Maybe using lowercase on the tag name?

Jeff Ober 2009-06-08 12:20:32

Not working again.. But, in the HTML code, tag is capitalized...

sasa 2009-06-08 12:26:51

Hi there,Did you get a resolution on this problem. I think I am in the same boat :)).

theraneman 2009-06-09 06:41:16

Answer 2

+3 A:

Perhaps it's something strange IE6 does to URL in the href attribute? Try something like:

$("LINK[href*='style.css']").remove();

(i.e. check whether the href value contains "style.css")

It's just a guess, however. If that doesn't work, I recommend checking the JQuery documentation closely on the subject of attribute selectors and the remove method.

Also keep in mind that it's also not impossible that it's in fact a bug. (IE6 in general causes lots of issues involving JavaScript and DOM manipulation, among other things.)

Noldorin 2009-06-08 12:26:11

It seems that definitely doesn't work. I've update my post. Maybe bug in jQuery or something...

sasa 2009-06-08 12:52:24

Answer 3

+6 A:

This is not a bug in jQuery, it is a bug (or possibly, a feature) of the IE rendering engine.

It seems this problem is being caused by the fact that Internet Explorer does not correctly re-render the page after removing the LINK element from the DOM.

In this particular case, the LINK tag is no longer present at the DOM, but IE still displays the CSS that has been loaded into memory.

A workaround / solution for this is to disable the stylesheet using the .disabled property like this:

// following code will disable the first stylesheet
// the actual DOM-reference to the element will not be removed; 
// this is particularly useful since this allows you to enable it
// again at a later stage if you'd want to.
document.styleSheets[0].disabled = true;

EDIT in reply to your comment:

Or, if you want to remove it by the href use the following code:

var styleSheets = document.styleSheets;
var href = 'http://yoursite.com/foo/bar/baz.css';
for (var i = 0; i < styleSheets.length; i++) {
    if (styleSheets[i].href == href) {
        styleSheets[i].disabled = true;
        break;
    }
}

Aron Rotteveel 2009-06-08 13:51:19

Thanks for the answer, but that is not what I want. I don't know the element index, because it is changeable. The only thing I know about this element is href value.

sasa 2009-06-09 12:56:57

I just added an extra example that should solve this issue if you only have the href

Aron Rotteveel 2009-06-09 14:18:04

It doesn't work in FF, but I added $("link[href*='style.css']").remove(); after for statement and now everything is ok. Thanks :)

sasa 2009-06-10 08:15:25

Answer 4

A:

how to remove a link of rss like this:

the remove() doesn't work in firefox 3.5

2009-07-16 06:39:08

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