Find and replace specific attributes with cheerio
I have a html fragment similar to this
<div class="form-row">
<input type="text" id="foo1">
</div>
<div class="form-row">
<input type="text" id="foo2">
</div>
<div class="form-row">
<input type="text" id="foo3">
</div>
and I wanted to use cheerio to change the id foobar tag [1,2,3]
my code
var cheerio = require("cheerio");
var $ = cheerio.load("html as above");
var inputs = $('input[id]');
Object.keys(inputs).forEach(function(key,index) {
if (key == index) {
console.log(key,inputs[key])
//#1
});
at this point (// # 1), I wanted to get the id attribute value and according to the docs https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio I can use the .data method to get and change the attribute in the element, but
inputs[key].data("id")
gives me "Error TypeError: undefined is not a function"
I know that I missed something simple, but I don’t see a tree for trees and I appreciate some pointers.
thanks
update # 1
as soon as I think I have enough for it, it slips out of my fingers.
Now, I want to move the item:
I have
<label>xyz<i class="fa fa-list"></i></label>
I want too
<label>xyz</label><i class="fa fa-list"></i>
code - which does not work;) is
var icons = $('label i');
icons.each(function(index,icon) {
// #2 now that I've got an element what now ?
}
, icons.remove() , .
inputs[key]) dom, , data()
,
var cheerio = require("cheerio");
var $ = cheerio.load('<div class="form-row">\
<input type="text" id="foo1">\
</div>\
<div class="form-row">\
<input type="text" id="foo2">\
</div>\
<div class="form-row">\
<input type="text" id="foo3">\
</div>');
var inputs = $('input[id]');
inputs.attr('id', function(i, id){
return id.replace('foo', 'foobar')
});
console.log($.html())