Question

I would like to use javascript to serialize the current state of the DOM tree to a string. The resulting format doesn’t matter so much though I would prefer html.

Is there an easy way to do this?

For the record, I would like to automate downloading a page with PhantomJs, manipulating it with js scripts, and save the current state of the page (but not as an image or pdf).

Answer 1

You can serialize any element or part of dom using XMLSerializer .Here is the code

 Element.prototype.innerText = function(){
var serializer = new XMLSerializer();
var serialized = serializer.serializeToString(this);
return serialized;
}