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    copied!<p>I am writing a simple program to delete table rows on click of a button. But the code is always deleting the row that is above the row that needs to be deleted. Please help.</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <p><strong>JAVASCRIPT:</strong></p> <pre><code>function deleteRow(){ var rows = document.getElementsByName("chkBox"); alert('rows: '+rows.length); for(var row=0;row&lt;rows.length;row++){ //alert("element id is"+rows[row].id); var rowToDelete = rows[row]; var toBeDelete = rowToDelete.checked; //alert("element value is: "+toBeDelete); if(toBeDelete == true){ alert("row id is: "+rowToDelete.parentNode.parentNode.id); document.getElementById("myTable").deleteRow(rowToDelete.parentNode.parentNode); } } } </code></pre> <p><strong>HTML:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;table id="myTable" border="1"&gt; &lt;tr id="1"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Row 1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" name="chkBox" id="chkBox_1"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr id="2"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Row 2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" name="chkBox" id="chkBox_2"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr id="3"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Row 3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" name="chkBox" id="chkBox_3"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;button value="Delete" name="Delete" onClick="deleteRow()"&gt;Delete&lt;/Button&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/mmHjK/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fiddle</a></strong></p>
 

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