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javascript dynamically remove text

I have successfully created a button which adds text to the webpage however I do not know a viable way to remove text once this has been created. The js code I have is:
var addButtons = document.querySelectorAll('.add button');
function addText () {
var self = this;
var weekParent = self.parentNode.parentNode;
var textarea = self.parentNode.querySelector('textarea');
var value = textarea.value;
var item = document.createElement("p");
var text = document.createTextNode(value);
item.appendChild(text)
weekParent.appendChild(item);
}
function removeText() {
//document.getElementbyId(-).removeChild(-);
}
for (i = 0; i < addButtons.length; i++) {
var self = addButtons[i];
self.addEventListener("click", addText);
}
I have viewed various sources of help online including from this site however I simply cannot get any to work correctly. Thank you in advance.

Sure, it should be easy to locate the added <p> tag relative to the remove button that gets clicked.
function removeText() {
var weekParent = this.parentNode.parentNode;
var item = weekParent.querySelector("p");
weekParent.removeChild(item);
}
If there is more than 1 <p> tag inside the weekParent you will need a more specific querySelector.

JavaScript can't delete div from form

I am having an issue deleting or replacing a div with a either an empty div or a new veriosn of the div. I have tried to destroy the div with delete $targetname I've tried to replace the div with $("#divname").replace() and I seem to be missing some. I have the function tied to a button click that also clears a textarea and that part works fine but my form continues to show the divs that are getting appended but never removed. Below is the link to the fiddle for my code, any help is appreciated.
http://jsfiddle.net/fNfK8/
emWindow = window.open("", null, "height=400,width=800,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");
emWindow.document.title = "Emote Builder";
emWindow.document.body.style.background = "#00214D";
emWindow.document.body.style.color = "White";
// create a form and set properties
var emForm = document.createElement('form');
emForm.id = 'emForm';
// insert into the body of the new window
emWindow.document.body.appendChild(emForm);
// add text before the input
var emoteBuildL = document.createElement('emoteBuildL');
emForm.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Emote Build Window:'));
//add linebreak
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
// add a text input
var emoteBuild = document.createElement('textarea');
emoteBuild.type = 'text';
emoteBuild.name = 'emoteBuild';
emoteBuild.id = 'emoteBuild';
emoteBuild.rows = 6;
emoteBuild.cols = 80;
emoteBuild.value = '';
emForm.appendChild(emoteBuild);
var emoteTosend = document.getElementById('emoteBuild');
//add linebreak
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
var ePreview = document.createElement('button');
ePreview.type = 'button';
ePreview.innerHTML = 'Preview Emote';
ePreview.onclick = emoteFunc;
emForm.appendChild(ePreview);
var eSubmit = document.createElement('button');
eSubmit.type = 'button';
eSubmit.innerHTML = 'Send Emote';
eSubmit.onclick = function () {
client.send_direct("" + emoteBuild.value);
};
emForm.appendChild(eSubmit);
var eClear = document.createElement('button');
eClear.type = 'button';
eClear.innerHTML = 'Clear Emotes';
eClear.onclick = function () {
emoteBuild.value = '';
delete $emPreviews;
};
emForm.appendChild(eClear);
//add linebreak
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
// add text before the input
var emotePviewL = document.createElement('emotePviewL');
emForm.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Emote Previews:'));
//add linebreak
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
//add linebreak
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
function emoteFunc() {
var emPreview = emoteBuild.value;
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/%%(.+?)%%/g, "\<font color=\"red\"\>\"$1\"\</font\>");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/%%/g, "\"");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/\^/g, "");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/(\w+_him)/g, "(him/her)");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/(\w+_his)/g, "(his/her)");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/(\w+_he)/g, "(he/she)");
emPreview = emPreview.replace(/#/g, "");
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.class = 'emPreviews';
div.id = 'emPreviews';
div.style.color = "black";
div.style.backgroundColor = "white";
div.innerHTML = emPreview;
emForm.appendChild(div);
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
}

You will find it very much more efficient to put the HTML into a separate file and use that as the source for the new window. Alternatively, use document.write to add content to the page, e.g. the following replaces about 20 lines at the start of your script:
function openWin() {
var emWindow = window.open("", null, "height=400,width=800,status=yes");
emWindow.document.write(
'<!doctype html><title>Emote Builder<\/title>' +
'<style type="text/css">body{background-color: #00214D;color:White;}<\/style>' +
'<form id="emForm">' +
'Emote Build Window:<br>' +
'<textarea name="emoteBuild" id="emoteBuild" rows="6" cols="80"><\/textarea>'
);
emWindow.document.close();
}
Note that when you do:
var linebreak = document.createElement('br');
it creates an element in the current document, but then:
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
appends it to an element in a different document. You really should do:
var linebreak = emWindow.document.createElement('br');
emForm.appendChild(linebreak);
Or just put it in the HTML above.
You are also creating a button in the opener window, appending it to the form, then having it call a function in the opener. The new window has a new global context, it doesn't have access to the opener's scope. You can do:
ePreview.onclick = window.opener.emoteFunc;
or similar but you might find that blocked in some browsers.
I'd suggest you re–write the function to firstly generate the HTML you want, then write it to a new window using emWindow.document.write. Don't forget to call emWindow.document.close at the end.
Edit
Remember that you are working across documents. So if you are still running the script in the opener (the original window), you have to preface any reference to methods in the child window with a reference to emWindow, e.g. to get a reference to the form in the child window you have to use:
function emoteFunc() {
// Get a reference to the form in the child window
var emPreview = emWindow.document.getElementById('emoteBuild');
...
// Create a div in the child window to append to it
var div = emWidnow.document.createElement('div');
...
// The form and div are in the same document, so just append
emForm.appendChild(div);
// Create a BR element in the child and append it
emForm.appendChild(emWindow.document.createElement('br'));
...
}
Edit 2
Here is a trivial example of sending data between a child and opener.
<script>
var win;
function newWin(){
win = window.open('','','');
win.document.write(
'<title>new window<\/title>' +
'<script>function getValue() {' +
'document.getElementById("i0").value = opener.document.forms.f0.i0.value;}<\/script>' +
'<input id="i0">' +
'<input type="button" onclick="getValue()" value="Get value from opener">' +
'<input type="button" onclick="opener.getValue()" value="Get value using function in opener">'
);
win.document.close();
};
function getValue() {
console.log('getValue called');
console.log(win.document.getElementById('i0').value);
win.document.getElementById('i0').value = document.f0.i0.value;
}
function sendValue(value) {
win.document.getElementById('i0').value = value;
}
</script>
<button onclick="newWin()">Open child</button>
<form id="f0">
<p>Value to get from child
<input name="i0" value="value in opener">
<input type="button" value="Send value" onclick="sendValue(this.form.i0.value)">
</form>
You will discover that (in IE at least) you can:
call a function in the child window to get a value from the opener
call a function in the opener to send a value to the child
call a function in one window from the other,
but you can't call a function in the other window that updates the current window, that's one too many hops.
So any function you want to call from the child should be in the child, and any function you want to call from the opener should be in the opener.

How to hide child elements using javascript

<div id="wpq2">
<div class="subClass">
<a id="linkTO" class="subClass">New Item</a>
or
<a class="subClass">edit</a>
this list
</div>
</div>
i want to hide all the thing except
<a id="linkTO" class="subClass">New Item</a>
I do not have access to html ,
i have to use javascript
i tried somthing
var parentID = document.getElementById('wpq2');
var sub = parentID.getElementsByClassName('subClass');
var lastChild = sub[0].lastChild;
lastChild.style.display = 'none';
Using javascript no idea how to do
Please suggest

Try this instead:
var parentID = document.getElementById('wpq2');
//get the first inner DIV which contains all the a elements
var innerDiv = parentID.getElementsByClassName('subClass')[0];
//get all the a elements
var subs = innerDiv.getElementsByClassName('subClass');
//This will hide all matching elements except the first one
for(var i = 1; i < subs.length; i++){
var a = subs[i];
a.style.display = 'none';
}
Here is a working example
EDIT: The above will only hide the a element, as your text elements are not contained within specific elements then it becomes more tricky. If you are happy to effectively "delete" the HTML you don't want then you can do the following:
var parentID = document.getElementById('wpq2');
//get the first inner DIV which contains all the a elements
var innerDiv = parentID.getElementsByClassName('subClass')[0];
//get the HTML for the a element to keep
var a = innerDiv.getElementsByClassName('subClass')[0].outerHTML;
//replace the HTML contents of the inner DIV with the element to keep
innerDiv.innerHTML = a;
Here is an example

insert new html if you don't need the rest
document.getElementById('wpq2').innerHTML = '<a id="linkTO" class="subClass">New Item</a>';

var parentID = document.getElementById('wpq2');
var innerDiv = parentID.getElementsByClassName('subClass')[0];
var subs = innerDiv.getElementsByClassName('subClass');
subs.forEach(function (sub) { sub.style.display = 'none'; });
document.getElementById("linkTO").style.display = 'block';

adding an onchange event to select

I have the following js code:
function createConBox() {
var charDiv = document.getElementById("characterList"); // reference to "characterList" div
header = document.createElement("p"); // creates the <p> tag
charDiv.appendChild(header); // adds the <p> tag to the parent node
title = document.createTextNode("Show Only Lines By:"); // creates the text string
header.appendChild(title); // adds the text string to the parent node
// create select box and add elements
selectBox = document.createElement("select");
selectBox.setAttribute("id", "cList");
charDiv.appendChild(selectBox);
charNames = uniqueElemText("h3"); // array of character names
newOption = document.createElement("option");
selectBox.appendChild(newOption);
newOptionTitle = document.createTextNode("Show All Lines");
newOption.appendChild(newOptionTitle);
for (i = 0; i < charNames.length; i++) {
newOption = document.createElement("option");
selectBox.appendChild(newOption);
newOptionTitle = document.createTextNode(charNames[i]);
newOption.appendChild(newOptionTitle);
}
}
function showLines() {
alert("The Box has been changed");
}
Every time the option in the box is changed, I want it to call 'showLines()'. However, every time I try to implement an event, I can only get it to trigger when the page loads, and never again thereafter.

selectBox.onchange = showLines; should solve your problem.
in some browsers onchange get fired only after blurring select box. to over come this you can use onclick instead of onchange

My guess is that you're doing this:
selectBox.onchange = showLines();
If that's the case, just remove the ():
selectBox.onchange = showLines;

When I pass dynamically id in case then what I do:
var selectcell = tablerow.insertCell(1);
var selectelmt = document.createElement('select');
selectelmt.name = 'Select';
selectelmt.value = 'select';
selectelmt.classList = 'form-control input-sm cobclass';
selectelmt.onchange= onselectchange(i);
selectelmt.id = 'cobselect' + i;
selectelmt.options[0] = new Option('select');
selectcell.appendChild(selectelmt);
// ddrbind(i);
show();
i++;`

Change the onClick function to target the edit buttons

I have the following script
var counter = 0;
function appendText(){
var text = document.getElementById('usertext').value;
if ( document.getElementById('usertext').value ){
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.className = 'divex';
var li = document.createElement('li');
li.setAttribute('id', 'list');
div.appendChild(li);
var texty = document.createTextNode(text);
var bigdiv = document.getElementById('addedText');
var editbutton = document.createElement('BUTTON');
editbutton.setAttribute('id', 'button_click');
var buttontext = document.createTextNode('Edit');
editbutton.appendChild(buttontext);
bigdiv.appendChild(li).appendChild(texty);
bigdiv.appendChild(li).appendChild(editbutton);
document.getElementById('button_click').setAttribute('onClick', makeAreaEditable());
document.getElementById('usertext').value = "";
counter++;
}
};
var makeAreaEditable = function(){
alert('Hello world!');
};
I want the makeAreaeditable function to work when the Edit button is pressed(for each of the edit buttons that are appended under the textarea).. In this state, the script, alerts me when i hit the Addtext button.
the following is the html. P.S. i need this in pure javascript, if you can help. thanks
<textarea id="usertext"></textarea>
<button onClick="appendText()">Add text </button>
<div id="addedText" style="float:left">
</div>

instead of:
document.getElementById('button_click').setAttribute('onClick', makeAreaEditable());
you need to do this:
editbutton.onclick = makeAreaEditable;
the function's name goes without brackets unless you want to execute it
instead of obtaining the element from the DOM using document.getElementById('button_click')
you can use the editbutton variable already created. this object is the DOM element you are looking for
SIDE NOTE:
the standard way to do it is to add the onclick property before appending the element