Detect elements removing

I need to capture event, when some element was开发者_如何学Go removed from the DOM.

Removing can be done in following ways:

1. with jQuery.remove()
2. after hitting backspace in paragraph (that has "contentEditable" attr)

The only way, I know, to determine second case - is to count elements and compare after each hitting of backspace key.

Maybe there is a more elegant way exist ?

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There are the DOM Mutation Events, specifically DOMNodeRemoved and DOMNodeRemovedFromDocument, but IE has historically not supported them. They are supposedly supported in IE9.