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

This is great for changing elements on the dom but does NOT work for ie when passing in a html string into jquery like this:

$('
Some content
').find('#blog').outerHTML();

After some manipulation I have created a function which allows the above to work in ie for html strings:

$.fn.htmlStringOuterHTML = function() {     
    this.parent().find(this).wrap('
');        
    return this.parent().html();
};