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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;

API

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).

Parameters:

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

Returns: string

Options

encodeEntities

Optional encodeEntities: boolean | "utf8"

Encode characters reserved in HTML or XML in text and attribute values.

If xmlMode is true or the value is not 'utf8', characters outside of the ASCII range will be encoded as well.

Security: Setting this to false disables encoding of <, >, and & in text and attribute values. This is intended for the round-trip case where the DOM was parsed with decodeEntities: false, so markup characters only exist as entity references. If the DOM contains raw markup characters (e.g., from a default-decoded parse, or from programmatic manipulation), they will be emitted literally — do not use this option with untrusted input unless you have validated the DOM yourself.

default decodeEntities


decodeEntities

Optional decodeEntities: boolean

Default for encodeEntities. Named to match the parser option of the same name so a single options object can be threaded through parse and serialize. Despite the name, on the serializer this option controls encoding — setting it to false carries the same security caveat as encodeEntities: false.

default true


emptyAttrs

Optional emptyAttrs: boolean

Print an empty attribute's value.

default xmlMode

example With <code>emptyAttrs: false</code>: <code><input checked></code>

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


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 <code>selfClosingTags: false</code>: <code><foo></foo><br></br></code>

example With <code>xmlMode: true</code> and <code>selfClosingTags: true</code>: <code><foo/><br/></code>

example With <code>xmlMode: false</code> and <code>selfClosingTags: true</code>: <code><foo></foo><br /></code>


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


Ecosystem

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

dom-serializer - Installation

To install dom-serializer via this registry, you'll need to install via the --registry parameter with your package manager.

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NPM

npm install dom-serializer --registry https://js.registry.sudovanilla.org

Learn more about the --registry parameter.

Yarn

yarn config set registry https://js.registry.sudovanilla.org
yarn install dom-serializer

Learn more about the config option.

PNPM

pnpm install dom-serializer --registry https://js.registry.sudovanilla.org

Learn more about the --registry parameter.

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Bun

bun install dom-serializer --registry https://js.registry.sudovanilla.org

Learn more about the --registry parameter.

Learn more about setting this up in your bunfig.toml configuration.


For Deno, add the following to your .npmrc file in your directory:

registry="https://js.registry.sudovanilla.org"

Then run the deno install command.

dom-serializer - Download

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