typescript-lib-dom

TypeScript uses ‘<>’ to surround casts, so the above becomes: var script = <HTMLScriptElement>document.getElementsByName(“script”)[0]; However, unfortunately you cannot do: var script = (<HTMLScriptElement[]>document.getElementsByName(id))[0]; You get the error Cannot convert ‘NodeList’ to ‘HTMLScriptElement[]’ But you can do : (<HTMLScriptElement[]><any>document.getElementsByName(id))[0];