# Removing rows from a column

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679 "2020-09-01T02:41:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![mrtwocanes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrtwocanes/32/32268_2.png) [@mrtwocanes](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrtwocanes)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/1 "2020-09-01T02:41:35Z")

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I used Any Component to create rows in a column.  
 ![Screenshot from 2020-08-31 19-36-46](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/1/114c156788805bcfd8636805c8b245bb0674dd9f.png)  
Now I want to remove the rows, but I only see a way to  
remove the entire column, which I want to re-use for the  
rows-to-be-create next.  
 ![Screenshot from 2020-08-31 19-39-24](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/6/c/6cda27a0f8a966a82335b89a64772ccb71a918c2.png)  
How can I remove rows that have no name? Remaking the column  
each time seems superfluous.

Thanks for your help.

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### Author: ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/2 "2020-09-01T06:51:43Z")

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When creating rows, save links to them in the list, and then select these links from the list to delete

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### Author: ![mrtwocanes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrtwocanes/32/32268_2.png) [@mrtwocanes](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrtwocanes)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/3 "2020-09-01T14:15:30Z")

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OK, that makes sense, except for the “links”. I don’t know how to create links.

Are you talking about “components”, ie, Creating row “component”? Like this?

 ![Screenshot from 2020-09-01 07-37-20](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/a/fa4f37d46ce8f315a91b5cf6e270ec5f92befe9c.png)

Thanks for your help.

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### Author: ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/4 "2020-09-01T16:52:33Z")

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Look for the purple block you create a component. It has a green “component” block. This block is a link to the created component. Do you understand that? If Yes, you can attach this block to a variable and then the variable will contain a reference to this component. This means that you can insert this variable into the block to delete the component - ![изображение](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/3/7/37b7def984c4d32dbaa9b03f9b955aa830deb028.png)

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### Author: ![mrtwocanes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrtwocanes/32/32268_2.png) [@mrtwocanes](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrtwocanes)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/5 "2020-09-01T17:50:03Z")

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Function destroyRows does not work:

 ![Screenshot from 2020-09-01 10-46-09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/1/4195203c8462166c7d16dc1591fadfa5899b5d2e.png)  
Seems like it should, what am I doing wrong?

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### Author: ![mrtwocanes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrtwocanes/32/32268_2.png) [@mrtwocanes](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrtwocanes)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/6 "2020-09-01T17:56:19Z")

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Helps if one removes the items from the list before trying to load it up again. 😏  
 ![Screenshot from 2020-09-01 10-54-30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/9/7/977a18d1bf0eb551f29caf30d50b1484684ec003.png)

Thanks again for your help, actech!

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### Author: ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/7 "2020-09-02T07:09:48Z")

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Check it [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5f4f425bc0ba1d1f40f0e23c/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5f4f425bc0ba1d1f40f0e23c/project/properties/designer/)

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-rows-from-a-column/783679/8 "2024-11-08T12:24:20Z")

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