emulate removechild in IE 4?

[bulk88]

How can I emulate DOM level 1 removeChild in IE 4? I already figured
out to emulate getElementById by doing this

if((!document.getElementById) && document.all)
{document.getElementById = function(id){return document.all[id];};
}

Is there something similar for removeChild?

 

[Michael Winter]

How can I emulate DOM level 1 removeChild in IE 4?

With enormous difficulty.

I already figured out to emulate getElementById by doing this

if((!document.getElementById) && document.all)
{document.getElementById = function(id){return document.all[id];};
}

That's an approximation as the all collection will return elements that
match by either id or name, and if there is more than one result a
collection, rather than a single reference, will be returned. Be aware of
that when you're producing your mark-up so that you will only every get
one reference. Alternatively, see the second example at

Is there something similar for removeChild?

You might be able to use the innerHTML property to remove the element,
though that would depend on the parent element in question (IE4 doesn't
implement innerHTML on all elements).

Good luck,
Mike

 

[Martin Honnen]

How can I emulate DOM level 1 removeChild in IE 4?

Well IE 4 doesn't know text nodes for instance so you can't write a
method for all types of child nodes that exist in DOM Level 1.
If you have an element node (e.g. accessed with
element.children[0]
) then you can simply set outerHTML to an empty string
if (element.children && element.children[0]) {
element.children[0].outerHTML = '';
}