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jQuery, get html of a whole element

lets say I have:

<span>my span</span>

I would like have html as a string of this span

I use:

var mySpan = $('span');

what to do with the mySpan var to have as a result string "<span>my span</span>"

thanks for any help

Answer 1

I think this will help: http://jsfiddle.net/HxU7B/2/.

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UPDATE.

mySpan[0].outerHTML will take a previoulsy selected node and get a native outerHTML property. Since old Firefox versions doesn’t have that property, we can use a bit of hack to get html – simply clone node to dummy div and then get this div’s innerHTML: $('<div/>').append(mySpan.clone()).html()