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Get selected element’s outer HTML
show a string of my div and append

With the code below I need to alert this <div id="myDiv"><h1>test</h1></div>

but my code alerts this <h1>test</h1>

How do I do this? thanks

Here is my fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/5GCEQ/

        <div id="myDiv">

            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>
            <div>test</div>

        </div>​

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    var s = $('#myDiv').html('<h1>test</h1>');

    alert(s.html()); //alerts <h1>test</h1>

//
//but I want it to alert    <div id="myDiv"><h1>test</h1></div>
//​​​

Answer 1

You can use parent() in JQuery:

var s = $('#myDiv').html('<h1>test</h1>');
alert(s.parent().html());

Here is the jsfiddle code.