export default class Utils {
    /**
     * Validates a given element selector and returns the corresponding DOM element.
     *
     * If the element selector is not a string, an error is thrown.
     * If the element selector is a string, it is validated against the DOM and if the element is not found, an error is thrown.
     *
     * @param {string} element - The element selector to be validated.
     * @returns {Element} The DOM element corresponding to the element selector.
     * @throws {Error} If the type of element is not a string.
     * @throws {Error} If the element selector is not found in the DOM.
     */
    static validateElementSelector(element: string): Element;
    /**
     * Checks if the provided class name is valid.
     *
     * The regex pattern used to validate class names:
     *   - `^` asserts the start of a line
     *   - `(?!\d|--|-?\d)` is a negative look ahead that prevents the class name
     *                  from starting with a digit, or a sequence of dashes, or a number with a leading dash
     *   - `[a-zA-Z_-]` matches any character that is a letter, a dash or an underscore
     *   - `[a-zA-Z\d_-]{1,}` matches any alphanumeric character, a dash or an underscore
     *
     * @param {string} className - The class name to be validated.
     * @returns {boolean} `true` if the class name is valid, `false` otherwise.
     */
    static validateClassName(className: string): boolean;
    /**
     * Validates if the given string is a valid CSS selector.
     *
     * A valid CSS selector must:
     * - Not start with a digit, a sequence of dashes, or a number with a leading dash.
     * - Consist of letters, dashes, or underscores.
     * - Contain at least one alphanumeric character, dash, or underscore.
     *
     * @param {string} className - The class name to validate.
     * @returns {boolean} True if the class name is valid, false otherwise.
     */
    static validateId(id: any): boolean;
    /**
     * Sanitizes the given input string to prevent XSS attacks.
     *
     * It uses the DOMParser to parse the string as HTML and then extracts the
     * text content of the parsed HTML document. This effectively strips any HTML
     * tags from the input string.
     *
     * @param {string} input - The input string to sanitize.
     * @returns {string} The sanitized string.
     * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47140708/394921
     */
    static sanitizeInput(input: string): string;
}
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