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SCRIPT and LINK tags defined in HEAD incorrectly assigned to BODY

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It appears the script and link tags defined in the head section are incorrectly being placed in the body DOM tree when using selectors to find them. On the plus side this doesn’t apply to $('body').html() text, but it does make using cheerio to build up template pages impossible without either duplicating script and link tags (i.e. when you’re passing the links up and searching for script and link tags via body > script or body > link) or adding additional markup to concatenate the script and link head elements (like moving them outside of the head into a div contained in the body.

This does work in standard jQuery (i.e. you can use head > link and head > script to obtain either.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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CoryGHcommented, Aug 20, 2017

Upon closer inspection this only occurs when you have a custom element preceeding the tags in the head tag, for instance:

<head>
    <title>title</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/mathquill.css"/>
    <header>header</header>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>

In the example above the link tag will show up but the script tag gets moved into the body (but not in the body HTML.) This differs from jQuery, which will always place it in the head tree.

Additional note: it does actually copy the non-standard tags into the start of the body html (for instance the header tag above,) but doesn’t not copy the other elements into the body.

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inikulincommented, Aug 26, 2017

You can add any tags inside template.