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Jun 29.2011

I am creating JS objects that have some properties that contain DOM nodes, and some of these DOM nodes have event listeners attached to them.

When I delete such objects, do I first need to remove the event listeners attached to some of the DOM nodes? And do I need to use removeChild on the DOM nodes that are properties of the object?

Or does JavaScript take care of all that?

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@rnd_meJun 30.2011 — unless this is an open-all-day script that has to run in IE 6/7 i wouldn't worry about it.

you should use event delegation upon a parent to remove any gotchas associated with pesky element/event closures on disposable elements.

EDIT:

i mis-read the question.

you can just delete them from your mixed property object without harm.
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