Print out jQuery object as HTML

Question

Is there a good way of printing out a jQuery object as pure HTML?

ex:

Answer 1

$('img')[0].outerHTML

will give you the HTML of the first img on the page. You will then need to use a for loop to get the HTML of all the images, or put an ID on the image and specify it only in the jQuery selector.

Answer 2

If you need to print the object in HTML format, use this extension outerHTML or this outerHTML.

Update

Update the link and include the code for second link:

$.fn.outerHTML = function(){

    // IE, Chrome & Safari will comply with the non-standard outerHTML, all others (FF) will have a fall-back for cloning
    return (!this.length) ? this : (this[0].outerHTML || (
      function(el){
          var div = document.createElement('div');
          div.appendChild(el.cloneNode(true));
          var contents = div.innerHTML;
          div = null;
          return contents;
    })(this[0]));

}

Answer 3

You could wrap it and then use html:

var img = $('img').eq(0);
console.log(img.wrap("<span></span>").parent().html());