Casting HTMLElement to HTMLTextAreaElement in Typescript

Ole Ersoy
1 min readJan 23, 2020

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Scenario

Our constructor is expecting an HTMLTextAreaElement instance but document.getElementById() returns an HTMLElement .

Approach

const c: HTMLTextAreaElement =<HTMLTextAreaElement> document.getElementById('console')

Demo

See console.ts for the constructor implementation and index.ts for the actual demo.

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