How to remove a specific item from an array in JavaScript

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Removing specific items from JavaScript arrays is crucial when building interactive applications that need to delete selected items, remove tags, or filter out unwanted data based on user actions. With over 25 years of experience in software development and as the creator of CoreUI, I’ve implemented this functionality extensively in components like multi-select dropdowns, tag inputs, and data tables where users need to remove specific entries. From my extensive expertise, the most reliable and efficient solution is combining indexOf() to find the item’s position with splice() to remove it. This approach handles both primitive values and object references while maintaining array integrity.