How to remove each Footnote textframes in a page using indesign javascript

[Karthik SG]

Hi I am trying to select and remove all footnote textframes in all pages of a document

[Manan Joshi]

Every textframe has a footnotes property. You can iterate on the textframes collection and check the footnotes length, if it is greater that 0 you can delete the textframe.

Something like

if(tf.footnotes.length) //delete the textframe

-Manan

[Karthik SG]

I tried it but the footnotes length

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var pagess = doc.pages;

for(var p=0; p<pagess.length; p++){
    var pgTxtFrames = pagess[40].textFrames;
    for(var t=0; t<pgTxtFrames.length; t++){
       // pgTxtFrames[t].remove();
        if(pgTxtFrames[t].footnotes.length >0){ 
            for(var f=0; f<pgTxtFrames[t].footnotes.length; f++){
             pgTxtFrames[t].footnotes[0].parentTextFrames[0].remove();
             }
         }
        }
    }


   

was Zero  but footnotes were present in each page

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

This line is your problem:

var pgTxtFrames = pagess[40].textFrames; 

You are referring to a 40th page all the time - it should be "p" instead - [p].

[Manan Joshi]

HI @Karthik SG,

You don't need to run a loop for every footnote in a frame. If the footnote count is  greater that 0 then delete it. Adding the fix listed by @Robert at ID-Tasker the following should work

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var pagess = doc.pages;

for(var p=0; p < pagess.length; p++){
    var pgTxtFrames = pagess[p].textFrames;
    for(var t=0; t < pgTxtFrames.length; t++){
        if(pgTxtFrames[t].footnotes.length > 0) 
            pgTxtFrames[t].remove()
    }
}

-Manan

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm pretty sure it's not what OP wants - @FRIdNGE already gave the solution - https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-remove-each-footnote-textframes-in-a-page...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You can't delete footnote's TextFrame - footnote shares TextFrame of the text where the reference is - you need to delete reference in the text. 

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().remove();

(^/)  The Jedi