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---
title: httpDelete
tags: browser,intermediate
firstSeen: 2020-04-16T11:21:33+03:00
lastUpdated: 2020-10-19T22:49:51+03:00
---
Makes a `DELETE` request to the passed URL.
- Use the `XMLHttpRequest` web API to make a `DELETE` request to the given `url`.
- Handle the `onload` event, by running the provided `callback` function.
- Handle the `onerror` event, by running the provided `err` function.
- Omit the third argument, `err` to log the request to the console's error stream by default.
```js
const httpDelete = (url, callback, err = console.error) => {
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('DELETE', url, true);
request.onload = () => callback(request);
request.onerror = () => err(request);
request.send();
};
```
```js
httpDelete('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', request => {
console.log(request.responseText);
}); // Logs: {}
```