[SOLVED] delete object

[cleary1981]

Hi I'm having a problem trying to delete an object in javascript. Heres the code I used to create it.

 

function showObject (){
if (request.readyState == 4) {
var returned = request.responseText;
var splitResult = returned.split(" ");
var h = splitResult[0];
var w = splitResult[1];	// the dimensions must be set to a scale as they are to big for the screen. 25px represents 100mm
h = h/5;
w = w/5;

cv = document.getElementById("canvas");
newObject = document.createElement('div');
newObject.Class = g_objName;
newObject.id = "newObject";
newObject.innerHTML = g_objName;
newObject.alt = g_objName;
newObject.style.height = h;
newObject.style.width = w;
newObject.onmousedown=function(){grab(this);}	
cv.appendChild(newObject);
}
}

 

heres what I have so far on the delete function

 

function obj_delete() {
var obj_name = document.getElementById("object").value;
var proj_id = document.getElementById("projID").value;
var url = "deleteObject.php?obj_name=" + escape(obj_name) + "&proj_id=" + escape(proj_id);
request.open("GET", url, true);
request.send(null);
delete canvas.Child;
}

 

As you can see from my code I have deleted the object in my db ok but I need to be able to delete the object on the webpage. newObject where its innerHTML = var obj_name in the delete function. Any help much appreciated.

[lemmin]

The way I see it you are trying to remove an element with an id of "object" and the element you created was "newObject." Anyway, since you used appendChild() to put the object somewhere, you just have to use removeChild() to take it away.