@roy thanks! can you change the #to_s in an alias (or alias_method)?

I have recently been using #to_s as an alias to get the text/html of an element, to mirror nokogiri having Node#to_s and NodeSet#to_s to return the inner html representation. This (for me) seems a better fit than using is as an alias of #inspect.

The question is then what we want to output when doing a to_s, in my opinion there are 3 options.

• the same as toString() in javascript: "[object Object]"
• output a representation of the object in a ruby way as I'm doing right now: '#<Element [
  ]>'
• output inner_html (or inner_text)

In my opinion we should do the second option, as that's more expected when using to_s.

+1 for outer html, inspect is still there if one needs it

Thanks for the request, (finally) merging in. 👍