How to dispose of DOM elements in JavaScript to avoid memory leaks

Question

I have an application that allows a user to view details on a specific case w/out a postback. Each time a user requests data from the server I pull down the following marku

Answer 1

function discardElement(element) {
    var garbageBin = document.getElementById('IELeakGarbageBin');
    if (!garbageBin) {
        garbageBin = document.createElement('DIV');
        garbageBin.id = 'IELeakGarbageBin';
        garbageBin.style.display = 'none';
        document.body.appendChild(garbageBin);
    }
    // move the element to the garbage bin 
    garbageBin.appendChild(element);
    garbageBin.innerHTML = '';
}

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