Jquery: get all html source of a page but excluding some #ids

Question

I'm trying to use .html() or .contents() but i have strange behaviours

I basically need to get the entire dom of the page, exclude some elements (ex. #first, #second) and the pass it as a string, not a dom anymore...

is it possible?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '12 at 18:29

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You can clone it, remove the elements you want to exclude from the clone, and then return the clone's html:

$('body').clone().find('#first,#second').remove().end().html()

answered Feb 20 '12 at 18:29

ori

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+1 for introducing me to end() - that'll chop off a few lines of code from future code I write – Kavi Siegel Feb 20 '12 at 18:36

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