In jquery, how can I select a whole item as a text, rather than it's content?

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?

Does this help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2419749/get-selected-elements-outer-html — zigg, Mar 31 '12 at 23:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '12 at 23:25

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For the browsers that support it you can use the outerHTML

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

answered Mar 31 '12 at 23:25

Gabriele Petrioli

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Why did you use jQuery for? if you use only native javascript functions, don't use jQuery. – gdoron is supporting Monica Mar 31 '12 at 23:32
because the OP used it, and wanted to answer the specific part only.. But you are right.. for the situation in the example code, it doesn't really offer much help. – Gabriele Petrioli Mar 31 '12 at 23:33
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Upvoting because support is important. Did Firefox really only pick up on this in 11? – zigg Apr 01 '12 at 12:08
@zigg, looks that way.. i doubt they would have wrong info on their own website (*but yes.. quite delayed support..*).. – Gabriele Petrioli Apr 01 '12 at 13:20
can you edit your answer and explain what [0] indexer stands for? – Uğur Gümüşhan Apr 02 '12 at 14:19
@UğurGümüşhan, it is the same as doing [`.get(0)`](http://api.jquery.com/get/). It returns the actual DOM element, instead of a jQuery object. This way we can access the DOM properties like outerHTML. – Gabriele Petrioli Apr 02 '12 at 15:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '12 at 23:32

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Don't use jQuery selectors, just to use native javascript functions!

document.getElementById('#god').outerHTML

answered Mar 31 '12 at 23:32

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In jquery, how can I select a whole item as a text, rather than it's content?

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