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DOMCharacterData::deleteData

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMCharacterData::deleteData — Remove a range of characters from the character data

Description

public function DOMCharacterData::deleteData(int $offset, int $count): bool

Deletes count characters starting from position offset.

Parameters

offset

The offset from which to start removing.

count

The number of characters to delete. If the sum of offset and count exceeds the length, then all characters to the end of the data are deleted.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Errors/Exceptions

May throw a DOMException with the following error codes:

DOM_INDEX_SIZE_ERR

Raised if offset is negative or greater than the number of UTF-8 codepoints in data, or if count is negative.

See Also


<DOMCharacterData::beforeDOMCharacterData::insertData>
^DOMCharacterDataLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026