Question

lets say I have a

<div id="god">
Supertext
</div>

I want to assign

<div id="god">
Supertext
</div>

to a variable

.text()
.html()

only gets “supertext” as a value.

$("#god")
$("#god").clone

returns an object

I don’t want to wrap the object and get it’s html, because it’s time consuming.
How can I select the whole item and assign it to a variable in javascript?

Answer 1

For the browsers that support it you can use the outerHTML

$("#god")[0].outerHTML;