removechild

Delete one node/element from a set of similar nodes

Here's what I need to do: sample XML (not sure if it displays right here) <Tags> <Tag ID="0" UserTotal="1" AllowMultipleSelect="1"> <Name>BaseSamples</Name> <Sample ID="546" Count="1">Sample1 </Sample> <Sample ID="135" Count="1">Sample99</Sample> <Sample ID="544" Count="1">Sample2</Sample> <Sample ID="5818" Count="1">Sam...

Delete a child node using RemoveChild()

Hi, I would like to delete just this one node, for example: <Sample ID="544" Type="0">Sample2</Sample> from this XML, for example: <Tests> <Test ID="0" AllowMultipleSelect="1"> <Name>BaseSamples</Name> <Sample ID="546" Type="0">Sample1 </Sample> <Sample ID="135" Type="0">Sample45</Sample> <Sample ID="544" Type="0">Sample2</Sa...

ActionScript 3.0 Argument Error:2025 (Remove Child Problem)

Hello everyone, I am encountering the following error message whenever I compile my project in Adobe Flash CS4: ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller. at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild() at stageRotation/spawnParticle() at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()...

Flash Application Slows Down [removeChild]

Hi everyone, I have a problem with my flash application because after a while that it is running, it eventually starts to slow down. My application involves something that needs to be replicated with the addChild() method. I've read some info on the internet which states that the cause of the slowing down or the lag in the application i...

Why does removeChild need a parent node?

After answering this question I am left wondering why removeChild needs a parent element. After all, we could simply do node.parentNode.removeChild(node); As the parent node should be always directly available to the Javascript/DOM engine, it is not strictly necessary to supply the parent node of the node that is to be removed. Of co...

Error using removeChild (AS3)

I am creating a pacman-style game. I am trying to remove an instance of a MovieClip using removeChild(). When the MovieClip instance "box" hits the MovieClip instance "circle" --circle will be removed from the stage. I am receiving the following error below: ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the c...

removeChild <script> before JavaScript executes

I have a local file that I am displaying in an iframe. I cannot alter the file (or any files included- css, script, etc). I need to remove all of the tags from the file. This is easy enough, but I would like to remove them before the JavaScript inside them is executed. Simply doing: window.onload = function(){ iframeHEAD.removeChil...

Why can I not remove a child element I've just found? NOT_FOUND_ERR

I'm building a script which has to patch XML files, including replacing one list of elements with another. The following function applies a patch (involving a possibly empty list of elements with the same name) onto a parent Element's list of elements by the same name (also possibly an empty list). (This is only a small part of the patch...

Removing Parent in AS3: Does this free the memory used by all the children?

I'm making a rather large flash project and so I'm concerned about memory usage. At the end of each section of the application I remove the overarching parent element that holds the content. Although this remove the parent, does this also free up the memory for each of the children contained within this, or should I run an iteration to r...

How can I delete item from a nested XUL tree?

I created a nested tree using XUL (no database was used to store items). I want to delete items from this tree by selecting the item (only 1 at a time) then click delete. I wrote Javascript function to delete as following but it does not work. function delete(){ var tree = document.getElementById("treeId"); currentPos = tree.cur...

AS3 Do I need remove childs, if I remove the parent itseft?

In flash AS3 Do I need remove childs, if I remove the parent itseft? If I remove childs first, then remove the parent object afterall OR If I just remove parent object Will flash take same memory? ...

Flex 3 Error #2025 when using removeChild

Hi, I'm getting a Flex ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller. This is what I've got: a) I set the variable lastButtonClicked to the last button that was clicked in the main app. private var lastButtonClicked:DisplayObject; private function lastButtonClickedFunction(event:MouseEvent)...

this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent) not working in IE8

Hi, I am facing an issue because of removeChild method in javascript. I am using below code to remove a div tag. this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent). that code is working pretty fine in FF but it give me error in IE7/8. " Error: Object doesn't support this property or method ". is removeChild method is not supported in IE7/...

Remove() From Collection Does Not Mark Object As Deleted - EF4

I'm using POCO generated classes - any way that I can tweek the template so that when I remove from a child collection, the item removed is also deleted from the db ? Or maybe in the partial class I can override something, catch an event ..? Basically I want Order.OrderDetails.Remove(orderDetail) to remove the orderDetail from db. I ...

AS3 remove MC from dynamic path reference with removeChild

I'm not even sure if the title reflects what I want to do. Here's backstory. I have a movieclip with 5 'holder' movieclips in them. They are my containers for dynamically added movieclips. The parent containers has an instance name of pyramid, the holder instance names are labeled after the 6 food groups, i.e., 'grainholder', 'fruithol...