TypeScript: casting HTMLElement

Question

Does anyone know how to cast in TypeScript?

I\'m trying to do this:

var script:HTMLScriptElement = document.getElementsByName(\"script\")[0];
alert(s         


        

Answer 1

As of TypeScript 0.9 the lib.d.ts file uses specialized overload signatures that return the correct types for calls to getElementsByTagName.

This means you no longer need to use type assertions to change the type:

// No type assertions needed
var script: HTMLScriptElement = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
alert(script.type);