Question

I have a DOMelement like

text

and I have saved this in a variable elem in a function

function(elem){ var elem=elem; }

And NOW I want to save this dom object as a string like

<div class="testdiv"><div class="delete">text</div>

How would you manage this? I tried sth. like elem.toString()
which didn’t work or elem.html() which just returns the INNER html.

Answer 1

For jQuery you might want to refer it as

var elem = $('#elem');
var strElem = elem[0].outerHTML;
if(strElem == null) {
    strElem = $('<div>').append(elem.clone()).html();
}

http://jsfiddle.net/KRgkc/3/