---
title: Selection.deleteFromDocument()
slug: Web/API/Selection/deleteFromDocument
translation_of: Web/API/Selection/deleteFromDocument
original_slug: Web/API/Selection/从Document中删除
---
<div>
<div>
<div>{{ ApiRef("DOM") }}{{SeeCompatTable}}</div>
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<div class="note">
<p>The <strong><code>Selection.deleteFromDocument()</code></strong> method deletes the actual text being represented by a selection object from the document's DOM.</p>
</div>

<h2 id="Syntax" name="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox"><em>sel</em>.deleteFromDocument()
</pre>

<h3 id="Parameters" name="Parameters">Parameters</h3>

<p><em>None.</em></p>

<h2 id="Examples" name="Examples">Examples</h2>

<p>A user selects the (imaginary) text "ve two ea" from "Rabbits have two ears." on a web page. The user then clicks a button that executes the JavaScript snippet <code>window.getSelection().deleteFromDocument()</code>. The document's text becomes "Rabbits hars."</p>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

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 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML Editing', '#dom-selection-deletefromdocument', 'Selection.deleteFromDocument()')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML Editing')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('Selection API', '#widl-Selection-deleteFromDocument-void', 'Selection.deleteFromDocument()')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('Selection API')}}</td>
   <td>Current</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility" name="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

{{Compat("api.Selection.deleteFromDocument")}}

<h2 id="See_also" name="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{domxref("Selection")}}, the interface it belongs to.</li>
</ul>