Title: WP_HTML_Open_Elements::pop
Published: November 8, 2023
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# WP_HTML_Open_Elements::pop(): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Pops a node off of the stack of open elements.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#stack-of-open-elements](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#stack-of-open-elements/)

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool Whether a node was popped off of the stack.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
     */
    public function pop(): bool {
    	$item = array_pop( $this->stack );
    	if ( null === $item ) {
    		return false;
    	}

    	$this->after_element_pop( $item );
    	return true;
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-open-elements.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-open-elements.php#L517)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-open-elements.php#L517-L525)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_HTML_Open_Elements/pop/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [6.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/6.4.0/) | Introduced. |

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