How to remove item from array by value?

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Is there a method to remove an item from a JavaScript array?

Given an array:

var ary = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];

I would like to do something like:

removeItem('seven', ary);

I've looked into splice() but that only removes by the position number, whereas I need something to remove an item by its value.

37 Answers

The simplest solution is:

array - array for remove some element valueForRemove; valueForRemove - element for remove;

array.filter(arrayItem => !array.includes(valueForRemove));

More simple:

array.filter(arrayItem => arrayItem !== valueForRemove);

No pretty, but works:

array.filter(arrayItem => array.indexOf(arrayItem) != array.indexOf(valueForRemove))

No pretty, but works:

while(array.indexOf(valueForRemove) !== -1) {
  array.splice(array.indexOf(valueForRemove), 1)
}

P.S. The filter() method creates a new array with all elements that pass the test implemented by the provided function. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/filter

Method 1

var ary = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];
var index = ary.indexOf('seven'); // get index if value found otherwise -1

if (index > -1) { //if found
  ary.splice(index, 1);
}

Method 2

One liner Solution

var ary = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];
filteredArr = ary.filter(function(v) { return v !== 'seven' })


// Or using ECMA6:
filteredArr = ary.filter(v => v !== 'seven')

You can create your own method, passing throught the array and the value you want removed:

function removeItem(arr, item){
 return arr.filter(f => f !== item)
}

Then you can call this with:

ary = removeItem(ary, 'seven');

Really, i can't see why this can't be solved with

arr = arr.filter(value => value !== 'seven');

Or maybe you want to use vanilla JS

arr = arr.filter(function(value) { return value !== 'seven' });

In all values unique, you can:

a = new Set([1,2,3,4,5]) // a = Set(5) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
a.delete(3) // a = Set(5) {1, 2, 4, 5} 
[...a] // [1, 2, 4, 5]

You can achieve this using Lodash _.remove function.

var array = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];
var evens = _.remove(array, function(e) {
  return e !== 'seven';
});

console.log(evens);
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.10/lodash.min.js"></script>

In a global function we can't pass a custom value directly but there are many way as below

 var ary = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];
 var index = ary.indexOf(item);//item: the value which you want to remove

 //Method 1
 ary.splice(index,1);

 //Method 2
 delete ary[index]; //in this method the deleted element will be undefined
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