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];
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Answer 1

We could type our variable with an explicit return type:

const script: HTMLScriptElement = document.getElementsByName(id).item(0);

Or assert as (needed with TSX):

const script = document.getElementsByName(id).item(0) as HTMLScriptElement;

Or in simpler cases assert with angle-bracket syntax.

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A type assertion is like a type cast in other languages, but performs no special checking or restructuring of data. It has no runtime impact, and is used purely by the compiler.

Documentation:

TypeScript - Basic Types - Type assertions