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Description
In TypeScript, getElementById returns a HTMLElement, while the standard mandates it to return a Element in order to account for more general situations like SVGElement and alike.
This change seems to be refused by TypeScript, for many years now:
- document.getElementById is not correctly typed microsoft/TypeScript#60996 (comment)
Node.parentElementshould beElement | null, notHTMLElement | nullmicrosoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#1151 (comment)- Update lib dom for 4.2 microsoft/TypeScript#42067 (comment)
- Node.parentElement should be Element, not HTMLElement microsoft/TypeScript#4689 (comment)