dom-serializer's Introduction

dom-serializer

Renders a domhandler DOM node or an array of domhandler DOM nodes to a string.

import render from "dom-serializer";

// OR

const render = require("dom-serializer").default;

API

▸ render(node: Node | Node[], options?: Options): string

Renders a DOM node or an array of DOM nodes to a string.

Can be thought of as the equivalent of the outerHTML of the passed node(s).

Name	Type	Default value	Description
`node`	Node \| Node[]	-	Node to be rendered.
`options`	DomSerializerOptions	{}	Changes serialization behavior

Returns: string

• Optional decodeEntities: boolean

Encode characters that are either reserved in HTML or XML, or are outside of the ASCII range.

default true

• Optional emptyAttrs: boolean

Print an empty attribute's value.

default xmlMode

example With emptyAttrs: false: <input checked>

example With emptyAttrs: true: <input checked="">

• Optional selfClosingTags: boolean

Print self-closing tags for tags without contents.

default xmlMode

example With selfClosingTags: false: <foo></foo>

example With selfClosingTags: true: <foo />

• Optional xmlMode: boolean | "foreign"

Treat the input as an XML document; enables the emptyAttrs and selfClosingTags options.

If the value is "foreign", it will try to correct mixed-case attribute names.

default false

Name	Description
htmlparser2	Fast & forgiving HTML/XML parser
domhandler	Handler for htmlparser2 that turns documents into a DOM
domutils	Utilities for working with domhandler's DOM
css-select	CSS selector engine, compatible with domhandler's DOM
cheerio	The jQuery API for domhandler's DOM
dom-serializer	Serializer for domhandler's DOM