Get selected element's outer HTML

Question

I\'m trying to get the HTML of a selected object with jQuery. I am aware of the .html() function; the issue is that I need the HTML including the selected obje

Answer 1

I used Jessica's solution (which was edited by Josh) to get outerHTML to work on Firefox. The problem however is that my code was breaking because her solution wrapped the element into a DIV. Adding one more line of code solved that problem.

The following code gives you the outerHTML leaving the DOM tree unchanged.

$jq.fn.outerHTML = function() {
    if ($jq(this).attr('outerHTML'))
        return $jq(this).attr('outerHTML');
    else
    {
    var content = $jq(this).wrap('
').parent().html();
        $jq(this).unwrap();
        return content;
    }
}

And use it like this: $("#myDiv").outerHTML();

Hope someone finds it useful!