Range.extractContents

The Range.extractContents() method moves contents of the Range from the document tree into a DocumentFragment.

Event Listeners added using DOM Events are not retained during extraction. HTML attribute events are retained or duplicated as they are for the Node.cloneNode() method. HTML id attributes are also cloned, which can lead to an invalid document if a partially-selected node is extracted and appended to the document.

Partially selected nodes are cloned to include the parent tags necessary to make the document fragment valid.

Syntax

documentFragment = range.extractContents();

Example

var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
var documentFragment = range.extractContents();
document.body.appendChild(documentFragment);

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
DOM The definition of 'Range.extractContents()' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification The definition of 'Range.extractContents()' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial specification.

Browser compatibility

See also

• The DOM interfaces index