How do I get an element name in cheerio with node.js

Question

How do I get an element\'s name in cheerio?

The jQuery equivalent would be .attr(\'name\') but that returns undefined in cheerio.

Answer 1

There's only one case, I suppose, when $someElement.attr('name') returns undefined - if there's NO attribute name on that element. For example...

var cheerio = require('cheerio'),
    $ = cheerio.load(
      '');

console.log( $('#one').attr('name') ); // undefined
console.log( $('#two').attr('name') ); // some_name

Note that attribute is only applicable to the following set of elements (MDN):

, , , 
, ,