Any way to get nearby html nodes different from current node's tag name in NodeJS?

Question

Let's say I have the following html code..

<html>
<head></head>
<body>  
  <div>
    <input type ="text">
    <img src = "pic.jpg">
    <a href ="index.html">Home</a>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

And I want to look at the nodes around an element that's on the same level. For example, from the above html code, is it possible to do something like...

 $("input").returnNodesOnSameLevel()

and it can return a list of nodes which here would contain [< input...>, < a...> ] ?

I'm using NodeJS's request module to grab the page source and then using Cheerio to do my parsing. The sibling() only returns nodes of the same tag name which makes sense. If there's a better module or another way to do this, please let me know.

Thank you.

Did you use a selector inside the `siblings()` call? Seems strange that Cheerio would have messed up that badly, but I've never used it so maybe? — getWeberForStackExchange, Jul 23 '15 at 22:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '15 at 22:44

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If $("input").siblings() doesn't work, you could try: $("input").parent().children()

answered Jul 23 '15 at 22:44

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Yeah that worked. Both of them do actually. I messed up a variable name in my actual code which was why I was got the empty results which is why I thought siblings() didn't work. Anyways, thank you. – Arrow Jul 23 '15 at 23:14

Any way to get nearby html nodes different from current node's tag name in NodeJS?

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