# How to delete a field from a document?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-a-field-from-a-document/22311
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 22, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-a-field-from-a-document/22311 "2015-02-22T09:49:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Sacheendra\_Talluri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sacheendra_Talluri)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-a-field-from-a-document/22311/1 "2015-02-22T09:49:43Z")
One way I found was to use a script as was mentioned here:
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html)
There is an example of how to remove a field from a document.
Is there any other way this can be achieved?
For example, if i want to delete the field "field1" from a document, would
the below request do that?
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/test/type1/1/\_update' -d '{
"field1": null
}'
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-a-field-from-a-document/22311/2 "2017-07-06T00:30:58Z")