295345 - JavaScript: DOM (removeNode) troubles

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

In the page http://dotorgc.org/test.html when you click "delete first row" - 
called javascript function wich try to remove First Row from the table using 
removeNode method for this. 
But I receive Error: varname.removeNode is not a function

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create table (simple html or DOM + javascript)
2.give ID to one of "TR" tags
3.get link to this TR using document.getElementById
4.try to use "removeNode" DOM method

Actual Results:  
removing selected row

Expected Results:  
Error: varname.removeNode is not a function

this method is described in W3C and works both InternetExplorer and Opera

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

(In reply to comment #0)
> this method is described in W3C

Where does the W3C describe it, the Microsoft page says it's non-standard?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/removenode.asp

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I think you want:
  varname.parentNode.removeChild(varname);

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  There is no removeNode DOM method.