Cheerio: Ability to retrieve tagName

[kishorenc]

Ideally, in jQuery's style: $ele.prop('tagName')

[matthewmueller]

You can do $ele[0].name

[kishorenc]

That's what I am doing right now. But, I am working on a project where the code is executed both on the server side and in the browser, and doing $ele[0].name does not work in the browser. An alternative approach would be the availability of a .get() method, so I can do $ele.get(0).name on both the client and server side.

Right now I am using feature detection to deal with both environments.

[matthewmueller]

I think you could just do….

Browser:

$ele[0].tagName

Cheerio:

$ele[0].name

On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Kishore Nallan [email protected] wrote:

That's what I am doing right now. But, I am working on a project where the code is executed both on the server side and in the browser, and doing $ele[0].name does not work in the browser. An alternative approach would be the availability of a .get() method, so I can do $ele.get(0).name on both the client and server side.

Right now I am using feature detection to deal with both environments.

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[kishorenc]

Thanks - yes, that indeed works. This issue is more about maintaining consistency with jQuery's API.

[matthewmueller]

tagName is DOM-specific. Cheerio's internal structure has nothing to do with the DOM. If you're looking for something that emulates the DOM, I would take a look at jQuery + JSDOM.

On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Kishore Nallan [email protected] wrote:

Thanks - yes, that indeed works. This issue is more about maintaining consistency with jQuery's API.

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[jeremy-dentel]

You could try doing something like...

var tagName = elem[0].tagName || elem[0].name;

Should work in browser & server.