text() preserve line breaks

I need to access innerHTML and preserve line breaks, so where is like <br>. In jQuery a solution could be this one

(function($){
   $.fn.innerText = function(msg) {
         if (msg) {
            if (document.body.innerText) {
               for (var i in this) {
                  this[i].innerText = msg;
               }
            } else {
               for (var i in this) {
                  this[i].innerHTML.replace(/<br>/gi,"n").replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
               }
            }
            return this;
         } else {
            if (document.body.innerText) {
               return this[0].innerText;
            } else {
               return this[0].innerHTML.replace(/<br>/gi,"n").replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
            }
         }
   };
})(jQuery);

so that you can easily use innerText() function like

 $(this).find('a').each(function(index,item) {
      console.log( $(this).innerText() )
   })

But how to do this in cheerio?

[msikma]

I’m not sure if this workaround is good enough for your purposes, but I needed to quickly fetch some text from an HTML document with <br> converted to linebreaks. I ended up doing this:

$('.cc-newsbody').find('br').replaceWith('\n')
const text = $('.cc-newsbody').text() // can't chain

Turns <br> into linebreaks, converts everything else into plain text.

edit: copypasting here for visibility, according to @issuefiler this one-liner works too:

$(".test").find("br").replaceWith("\n").end().text()

[fb55]

This unfortunately won’t be implemented, as it diverges from browsers.