JavaScript – How to remove certain element from Array

By mkyong | Updated: March 22, 2019

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In JavaScript, we can combine indexOf() and splice() to remove a certain element from an Array.

        var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
        console.log(array)

        // I want remove num 4, find the index first, -1 if it is not present.
        var index = array.indexOf(4);
        if (index > -1) { // found
            array.splice(index, 1);
        }

        // array = [1, 2, 3, 5];
        console.log(array);


        var lang = ['java', 'node js', 'javascript', 'pyhton'];
        console.log(lang)

        // I want remove node js
        var index = lang.indexOf(`node js`);
        if (index > -1) {
            lang.splice(index, 1);
        }

        //lang = ['java', 'javascript', 'pyhton'];
        console.log(lang);

References

• MDN – Array.prototype.indexOf()
• MDN – Array.prototype.splice()