De-Nest

Library that un-nests nested html elements.

Getting Started

Run this command in your terminal

npm i denester

Code Example

let d = require('denester');

let options = {
    tagName:'span',
    attributeOptions: {
        keepValueMatch:new RegExp("sheep","g")
    },
    textOptions:{
      keepTextMatch:new RegExp("Coffee","g")
    }
};

let unnestedEl = d.denest(nestedEl,options);

Before

<span class="john-wick neo"> 
  <article class="foo" style="color:red;":ba ="sheep">
      <a href="http://google.com" bar="foo">
      <p data="bird is the word">Coffee is GREAT</p>
      woo
      </a>
  </article>
</span>

After

<span :ba="sheep">Coffee</span>

Options

options.attributeOptions.keepAllAttributes [Boolean]

When set to true all attributes within nested element will be retained

options.attributeOptions.keepTheseAttrByValue [Array]

An array of values are named here. The denester will retain all attributes that have these exact values.

options.attributeOptions.keepTheseAttrByName [Array]

An array of values are named here. The denester will retain all attributes that have these exact names.

options.attributeOptions.keepNameMatch [RegExp]

Retains attributes whose names are matched in the defined Regular Expression.

options.attributeOptions.keepValueMatch [RegExp]

Retains attributes whose values are matched in the defined Regular Expression.

options.textOptions.keepAllText [Boolean]

When set to true text nodes within nested element will be retained

options.textOptions.keepTextMatch [RegExp]

Retains text nodes that match the defined Regular Expression.