Introduce innerHTML handlers

[nox]

Request extracted from #40. We want innerHTML handlers that allow users to modify the raw HTML of an element, similar to how they are already able to modify the element's text contents with text handlers. See this comment.

[cdloh]

@nox @xtuc @inikulin would there be a way for me to ask this work looked at?

It'd be really handy to have this in the htmlrewriter within workers. I'm currently looking at potentially replacing some rather unwieldy WASM code with htmlrewriter but being able to access the raw HTML within an element is a key part of it.

Should I speak with our AM?

[alexnj]

Bumping this (old) issue — is there a supported/recommended way to extract HTML of a node (.innerHTML and .outerHTML) with HTMLRewriter/lol-html? Or would it be advisable to switch to full DOM parsing?

[janwilmake]

bump

[madhadron]

Until we have an innerHTML method, is there a workaround to get this from the element?

[PepijnSenders]

bump

[luwes]

would love to know if this is possible as well.
it looks like it is with end_tag_handlers from this example if you build up the HTML manually
https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html/blob/master/src/rewritable_units/element.rs#L496-L537

[bangank36]

Until we have an innerHTML method, is there a workaround to get this from the element?

I followed this practice and it is working well for my usecase https://workers.tools/guides/2022-02-19-how-to-use-htmlrewriter-for-web-scraping/#extracting-html-subtrees