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detach

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Releases Range from use to improve performance.

Syntax

range.detach();

Parameters

None.

Example

range = document.createRange(); range.selectNode(   document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0)); range.detach();

Notes

Allows mozilla to relinquish resources associated with this Range. Subsequent attempts to use the detached range will result in a DOMException being thrown with an error code of INVALID_STATE_ERR.

Specification

detach