How do I dump JavaScript vars in IE8?

Question

I have an object I need to examine in IE8. I tried the developer tools and console.log, their Firebug equivalent. However, when I output the object to the log:<

Answer 1

console.log(element.toString()) might be your friend here...

Answer 2

Add this Tag in your page :

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js"></script>

And the things will work.

Its working on my system.

Note: Do try this solution.

Answer 3

A bit chunky but it works for DOM objects:

 console.log( testNode.outerHTML.replace(testNode.innerHTML,"") ); 

Answer 4

@Chris commented @Andy's answer with the simple solution: Use console.dir(myObj) to get all the details printed out in the console in IE. Thanks Chris!

Answer 5

Dump it into an existing HMTL-Element

I noticed IE 11 is stripping off console lines after 1027 chars :-/ When I had a large object to dump (12,000 chars) I dumped it into an existing DIV- oder TextArea-Element, from where I could copy the content.

var str = JSON.stringify(myObject);
$('#existing-element').text(str); // jQuery or
document.querySelector("#existing-element").innerHTML = str; // native JavaScript