Question

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

ex:

<img src="example.jpg">

<script>
var img = $('img').eq(0);
console.log(img.toString());
</script>

toString() doesn’t work this way. I need the HTML equivalent string , i.e:

<img src="example.jpg">

Answer 1

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]));

}