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HTML
<input type="button" value="still there?" onclick="alert((isInDoc(myElement))?'yes':'no')"/>
<hr/>
<strong id="someId" onclick="this.parentNode.removeChild(this)">Here I am, click me to remove me</strong>
JavaScript
function isInDoc(element)
{
return (document.documentElement.contains(element));
}
myElement=document.getElementById('someId');