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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;
render▸ 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
encodeEntities• Optional decodeEntities: boolean | "utf8"
Encode characters that are either reserved in HTML or XML.
If xmlMode is true or the value not 'utf8', characters outside of the utf8 range will be encoded as well.
default decodeEntities
decodeEntities• Optional decodeEntities: boolean
Option inherited from parsing; will be used as the default value for encodeEntities.
default true
emptyAttrs• Optional emptyAttrs: boolean
Print an empty attribute's value.
default xmlMode
example With emptyAttrs: false: <input checked>
example With emptyAttrs: true: <input checked="">
selfClosingTags• Optional selfClosingTags: boolean
Print self-closing tags for tags without contents. If xmlMode is set, this
will apply to all tags. Otherwise, only tags that are defined as self-closing
in the HTML specification will be printed as such.
default xmlMode
example With selfClosingTags: false: <foo></foo><br></br>
example With xmlMode: true and selfClosingTags: true: <foo/><br/>
example With xmlMode: false and selfClosingTags: true: <foo></foo><br />
xmlMode• 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 |
LICENSE: MIT
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render domhandler DOM nodes to a string
We found that dom-serializer-fixed demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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