Thursday, 5 September 2013

What is the purpose of jQuery's cleanData function?

What is the purpose of jQuery's cleanData function?

While studying the jQuery sourcecode I stumbled upon the
cleanData-function several times: jQuery.remove() calls it. So do other
functions. What is the purpose of calling cleanData before removing the
DOM-Element?
Is jQuery's remove()-method superior to a simple(removeChild) like in this
fiddle? And if so, why is it so? Does that code lead to memory leaks?

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