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JavaScript - remove class from HTML element on click event

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In this article, we would like to show you how to remove class from the HTML element on click event using JavaScript.

Quick solution:

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<div onclick="this.classList.remove('class-name')">Click me to remove 'class-name' class.</div>

Where:

class-name is the name of the class that will be removed on click event.

Practical example

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In this example, we create removeClass() function that accepts 2 arguments:

element - handle to the HTML element,
clazz - class name to remove.

Using the removeClass() function remove background class from the div element.

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<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <style>
​
    .background {
        background: yellow;
    }
​
    .border {
        border: 1px solid red;
    }
​
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <script>
​
    function removeClass(element, clazz) {
        element.classList.remove(clazz);
    }
​
  </script>
  <div class="background border" onclick="removeClass(this, 'background')">Click me!</div>
</body>
</html>