On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Michael Geary wrote:
> In your example, the hello function will never be garbage collected, because
> the window object has a property named 'hello' that holds a reference to the
> function.
Thanks for the correction.
Nathan
Removing a element just removes the script's *source code* from the
DOM. It doesn't undo any actions that the script has already performed, such
as defining functions or variables or creating other DOM elements. It
doesn't change their availability for garbage collection at all.
In your example,
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:53 PM, nihal wrote:
> is there anyway to remove the newly added function from the dom?
Wrap the code you want to be removeable in its own element,
give it an id, then remove it just like any other element. As has been
discussed today, removing it doesn't mean *poof* it'
hi
i have a div whose content is loaded via ajax..that content contains
html+javascript
the javascript contains a function called test()
when the content is loaded this function is added to the dom...now
when i remove the div using remove(); i am still able to run the
function test() as its still
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