Getting content of an element as string with unescaped HTML

Question

I'm using xmldom parser from npm library, it's based on the DOMNode object model. Having the following code:

var xml = "<p>Test</p><toFetch id="1">test\n\n<p>aaa</p>test\n</toFetch>";
var parser = new dom.DOMParser().parseFromString(xml, "text/xml");

I want to get the content of the toFetch tag, as a string with all unescaped HTML tags inside, and without the toFetch tag itself.

What I have is:

var elements = parser.getElementsByTagName("toFetch");
elements.forEach(element => {
    console.log(element.toString());
});

It works, but it gives me the string with toFetch surrounding tag. How can I get only the content?

Answer 1

Your string has a typo in it. The 1 should be in single quotes, not doubles.

Then, change: console.log(element.toString());

To: console.log(element.textContent);