# How to do DOM cleanup?

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-do-dom-cleanup/3871>\
**Category:** Proposals\
**Created:** [January 16, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-do-dom-cleanup/3871 "2014-01-16T18:58:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-do-dom-cleanup/3871/5 "2014-01-16T21:39:55Z")

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`willClearRender` is called when a view is about to be rerendered and also before `willDestroyElement` is triggered.

[http://madhatted.com/2013/6/8/lifecycle-hooks-in-ember-js-views](http://madhatted.com/2013/6/8/lifecycle-hooks-in-ember-js-views)

> [@Attaching jquery events to bound items](http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/attaching-jquery-events-to-bound-items/3580/12):
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> On a related note, does anyone see any problems with this approach? [Lifecycle Hooks in Ember.js Views :: madhatted.com](http://madhatted.com/2013/6/8/lifecycle-hooks-in-ember-js-views) Notice the use of ‘willClearRender’ to clean up custom event handlers… agree this is a good practice? I’m looking for best practices to create event handlers and then clean up.

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