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Automatically adding <html><head><body> ?

See original GitHub issue

OSX 10.12.4 Node 8.0 “cheerio”: “1.0.0-rc.1”

Not sure if this is expected, but:

let $ = cheerio.load('<div>Hello</div>');
console.log($.html());

// <html><head></head><body><div>Hello</div></body></html>

While in my case the auto-wrapping as an <html> document is weirdly useful, I was still surprised to see it. Is this a bug, or a feature? I don’t see a .fragment() method or anything like that. Maybe just missed something.

Thanks!

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Created 6 years ago
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musienkoyuriycommented, Feb 25, 2018

Use xmlMode: true to avoid auto-wrapping:

const parsed = cheerio.load(content, {
  xmlMode: true
});

24reactions

fb55commented, Dec 20, 2020

To give an answer here: The load method has a third argument, isDocument. If you set this to false, your document will be parsed in fragment mode and no <html> root tag (or other boilerplate) will be inserted. To use the example from the original issue:

let $ = cheerio.load('<div>Hello</div>', null, false);
console.log($.html());

// "<div>Hello</div>"

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