Question

The following hidden Flash movie is appearing on pages I am coding; until I figure out how to remove it from my system, is it possible using javascript to find it and delete it? Its container’s id might change.

<div id="SiUnhdqlqHN9t7wB_tbstore_container" 
        style="left:-2000px; top:-2000px; position:absolute;">
    <param name="movie" value="http://tbupdate.zugo.com/ztb/2.5/jsi/man/fc.swf"/>
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/>

Answer 1

Don’t spend time on workarounds. Stop everything and find out why this is happening, and when you find it, squash it flat.

Having said that, if I assume the param elements are within the div and that the div doesn’t contain anything else, then:

var list = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
var index;
var div;
for (index = 0; index < list.length; ++index) {
    div = list[index];
    if (div.id.indexOf("store_container") !== -1) {
        div.parentNode.removeChild(div);
        break;
    }
}

Or if you’re using a browser with querySelector, it’s a lot easier because you can use the attribute ends with selector:

var div = document.querySelector("div[id$=store_container");
if (div) {
    div.parentNode.removeChild(div);
}

But again: Much more important to spend time fixing the actual problem, not on workarounds.