jQuery - Trigger event when an element is removed from the DOM

Question

I m trying to figure out how to execute some js code when an element is removed from the page   jQuery   some-element   remove       remove some element from the page    need to figure out how to independently detect the above happened      is there an event tailored for that  something like   jQuery   some-element   onremoval  function            do post-mortem stuff here       thanks

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You can bind to the DOMNodeRemoved event (part of DOM Level 3 WC3 spec).

Works in IE9, latest releases of Firefox and Chrome.

Example:

$(document).bind("DOMNodeRemoved", function(e)
{
    alert("Removed: " + e.target.nodeName);
});

You can also get notification when elements are inserting by binding to DOMNodeInserted

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You can use jQuery special events for this   In all simplicity   Setup    function         event special destroyed         remove  function o          if  o handler            o handler                        jQuery    Usage       thing   bind  destroyed   function          do stuff      Addendum to answer Pierre and DesignerGuy s comments   To not have the callback fire when calling     thing   off  destroyed    change the if condition to  if  o handler  amp  amp  o type      destroyed

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an extension to Adam s answer incase you need to prevend default  here is a work around     document  on  DOMNodeRemoved   function e           if   e target  hasClass  my-elm    amp  amp   e target hasAttribute  is-clone                 let clone     e target  clone                  clone  attr  is-clone          allows the clone to be removed without triggering the function again                you can do stuff to clone here  ex  add a fade animation                 clone  insertAfter e target               setTimeout      gt                      optional remove clone after 1 second                   clone  remove                   1000

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This is how to create a jQuery live remove listener     document  on  DOMNodeRemoved   function e      var  element     e target  find   element      if   element length             do anything with  element           Or     document  on  DOMNodeRemoved   function e        e target  find   element   each function              do anything with   this

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Only jQuery is required  No jQuery UI needed    I have extracted this extension from the jQuery UI framework   Works with  empty   and html   and remove      cleanData     function  orig         return function  elems             var events  elem  i          for   i   0    elem   elems  i        null  i                   try                       Only trigger remove when necessary to save time                 events      data  elem   events                     if   events  amp  amp  events remove                            elem   triggerHandler   remove                                       Http   bugs jquery com ticket 8235               catch   e                        orig  elems                  cleanData      With this solution you can also unbind the event handler      YourElemSelector   off  remove        Try it  - Example   x000D   x000D    cleanData    function orig    x000D    return function elems    x000D      var events  elem  i  x000D      for  i   0  x000D         elem   elems i      null  i      x000D        try   x000D   x000D             Only trigger remove when necessary to save time x000D          events      data elem   events    x000D          if  events  amp  amp  events remove    x000D              elem  triggerHandler  remove    x000D            x000D   x000D             Http   bugs jquery com ticket 8235 x000D          catch  e     x000D        x000D      orig elems   x000D       x000D       cleanData   x000D   x000D   x000D      DivToBeRemoved   on  remove   function     x000D    console log  div was removed event fired    x000D      x000D   x000D     p   on  remove   function     x000D    console log  p was removed event fired    x000D      x000D   x000D     span   on  remove   function     x000D    console log  span was removed event fired    x000D      x000D   x000D        span   off  remove    x000D   x000D      DivToBeRemoved   on  click   function     x000D    console log  Div was clicked    x000D      x000D   x000D  function RemoveDiv     x000D                 DivToBeRemoved   parent   html          x000D        DivToBeRemoved   remove    x000D    x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt h3 gt OnRemove event handler attached to elements  div    p  and  span   lt  h3 gt  x000D   lt div class  container  gt  x000D     lt br gt  x000D     lt button onclick  RemoveDiv     gt Click here to remove div below lt  button gt  x000D     lt div id  DivToBeRemoved  gt  x000D      DIV TO BE REMOVED  x000D      contains 1 p element  x000D      which in turn contains a span element x000D       lt p gt i am p  within div  x000D         lt br gt  lt br gt  lt span gt i am span  within div  lt  span gt  lt  p gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Additional Demo - jsBin

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referencing to  David answer   When You want to do soo with another function  eg  html   like in my case  don t forget to add return in new function    function         var ev   new   Event  html            orig     fn html        fn html   function               this  trigger ev           return orig apply this  arguments

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For those who use jQuery UI   jQuery UI has overridden some of the jQuery methods to implement a remove event that gets handled not only when you explicitly remove the given element  but also if the element gets removed from the DOM by any self-cleaning jQuery methods  e g  replace  html  etc    This basically allows you to put a hook into the same events that get fired when jQuery is  cleaning up  the events and data associated with a DOM element   John Resig has indicated that he s open to the idea of implementing this event in a future version of jQuery core  but I m not sure where it stands currently

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We can also use DOMNodeRemoved       youridwhichremoved   on  DOMNodeRemoved   function         do stuff

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This     each        some-element             function i  item               item addEventListener  DOMNodeRemovedFromDocument                   function e   console log  I has been removed    console log e

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I couldn t get this answer to work with unbinding  despite the update see here   but was able to figure out a way around it   The answer was to create a  destroy proxy  special event that triggered a  destroyed  event   You put the event listener on both  destroyed proxy  and  destroyed   then when you want to unbind  you just unbind the  destroyed  event   var count   1   function             event special destroyed proxy             remove  function  o                  this  trigger  destroyed                       jQuery       remove   on  click   function            this  parent   remove            li   on  destroyed proxy destroyed   function          console log  Element removed        if  count  gt  2               li   off  destroyed            console log  unbinded              count          Here is a fiddle

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Hooking  remove   is not the best way to handle this as there are many ways to remove elements from the page  e g  by using  html     replace    etc    In order to prevent various memory leak hazards  internally jQuery will try to call the function jQuery cleanData   for each removed element regardless of the method used to remove it   See this answer for more details  javascript memory leaks  So  for best results  you should hook the cleanData function  which is exactly what the jquery event destroyed plugin does   http   v3 javascriptmvc com jquery dist jquery event destroyed js

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There is no built-in event for removing elements  but you can create one by fake-extending jQuery s default remove method  Note that the callback must be called before actually removing it to keep reference    function         var ev   new   Event  remove            orig     fn remove        fn remove   function               this  trigger ev           return orig apply this  arguments                    some-element   bind  remove   function         console log  removed            do pre-mortem stuff here         this  is still a reference to the element  before removing it         some other js code here            some-element   remove        Note  some problems with this answer have been outlined by other posters    This won t work when the node is removed via html   replace   or other jQuery methods This event bubbles up jQuery UI overrides remove as well   The most elegant solution to this problem seems to be  https   stackoverflow com a 10172676 216941

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The  remove  event from jQuery works fine  without addition  It might be more reliable in time to use a simple trick  instead of patching jQuery   Just modify or add an attribute in the element you are about to remove from the DOM  Thus  you can trigger any update function  that will just ignore elements on way to be destroyed  with the attribute  do not count it    Suppose we have a table with cells corresponding to prices  and that you need to show only the last price   This is the selector to trigger when a price cell is deleted  we have a button in each line of the table doing that  not shown here      td validity  count it     on  remove   function            this  attr  validity   do not count it        update prices          And here is a function that finds the last price in the table  not taking account of the last one  if it was the one that was removed  Indeed  when the  remove  event is triggered  and when this function is called  the element is not removed yet   function update prices          var mytable     pricestable          var lastpricecell   mytable find  td validity  count it     last        In the end  the update prices   function works fine  and after that  the DOM element is removed

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Just checked  it is already built-in in current version of JQuery   jQuery - v1 9 1  jQuery UI - v1 10 2      myDiv   on  remove   function          alert  Element was removed         Important  This is functionality of Jquery UI script  not JQuery   so you have to load both scripts  jquery and jquery-ui  to make it work  Here is example  http   jsfiddle net 72RTz

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I like mtkopone s answer using jQuery special events  but note that it doesn t work a  when elements are detached instead of removed or b  when some old non-jquery libraries use innerHTML to destroy your elements

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I m not sure there is an event handle for this  so you would have to keep a copy of the DOM and compare to the existing DOM in some kind of polling loop - which could be quite nasty  Firebug does this though - if you inspect the HTML and run some DOM-changes  it highlights the changes in yellow in the Firebug console for a short time   Alternatively  you could create a remove function     var removeElements   function selector        var elems   jQuery selector           Your code to notify the removal of the element here        alert elems length     elements removed         jQuery selector  remove           Sample usage removeElements   some-element    removeElements  p    removeElements   myclass

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