jquery html of class/id and itselfs html

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Get selected element's outer HTML

I want to alert the html of class/id with its children AND itselfs element like this:

<div id="selectme">somechildren...</div>

I want the exact same alert as the HTML code above by selecting the "selectme" ID.. whats the function(s) for this?

Answer 1

If the element in question has siblings, you can clone the selected element, wrap a parent element around it (in this case I've used a div), select that new parent element, and get the html of that:

var html = $("#selectme").clone().wrap("<div>").parent().html();

Here's a working example.

If the element doesn't have any siblings, you can just do:

var html = $("#selectme").parent().html();

Answer 2

Try this:

alert($("#selectme").parent().clone().wrap('<div>').parent().html());

Answer 3

Something like this:

alert($('#selectme').parent().html())

although your question is pretty blurry...