Impact of options is hard to understand

[tbaustin]

I am passing

const $ = cheerio.load("<div> > Hello world </div>", { decodeEntities: false }, false) // tried true and false for decodeEntities

return $.html()

We want it to return <div> > Hello world </div>, but it's returning <div> &gt; Hello world </div> instead.

[Properko]

Not the maintainer, but decodeEntities controls the opposite - if > in the input should become > in the output.
I think you want xmlMode: true instead.

[fb55]

That's almost the answer: The reason why decodeEntities doesn't work is that it is an option for htmlparser2, which isn't the default parser. Have a look at https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio#using-htmlparser2 for more details. The easiest way around this is probably by using the slim export.

Leaving this open to track the deeper issue.