# Dumb question about editing a node

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**Created:** [18 October 2020 04:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dumb-question-about-editing-a-node/34434 "2020-10-18T04:20:46Z")\
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> [@hepcat72](#):
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> So does oneditdelete trigger if a node is deleted via selection & delete key (i.e. without opening the edit dialog)?

add `debugger` key word into your node, restart node-red, open the browser & devtools, give it a go. Y

As i said earlier, I've not used it but i suspect it will fire when deleted from the editor (before deploy - so in other words, still active in the runtime).

If you want to remove callbacks at the server side, I would suggest you need to use `this.on('close'` and its parameters to determine if there is a clean up (at server side) to do.

[reference](https://nodered.org/docs/creating-nodes/node-js#closing-the-node)

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