Property ‘innerText’ does not exist on type ‘Element’

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You can fix it like this:

const data = await page.$eval(selector, node => (node as HTMLElement).innerText);

or:

const data = await page.$eval(selector, node => (<HTMLElement>node).innerText);

UPDATE:

So, after some exchange on Github, it’s clear why the syntax from this question does not work. It actually defines anonymous generic function.

<HTMLElement>(node: HTMLElement) => node.innerText

Clearer example would be following:

function myFunction<T>(node: T) {
    node.innerText; // Property 'innerText' does not exist on 'T'
}

const data = await page.$eval(selector, myFunction);

Unfortunate naming of T as HTMLElement creates confusion.

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